Islamabad: Senior Taliban leaders are meeting with Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi in Islamabad as part of a push to revive an Afghanistan peace deal that has included stops in Russia, China and Iran.
The delegation headed by Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, a co-founder of the Taliban and head of their political office in Qatar, met Qureshi on Thursday.
The Taliban delegation arrived in Islamabad at a time when Washington's special peace envoy is also here for "consultations" with Pakistan.
US envoy Zalmay Khalilzad spent the last year negotiating a peace deal with the Taliban which seemed imminent until September 7 when President Donald Trump declared the deal "dead" after a bomb planted by the Taliban exploded at the US embassy in Kabul.
Since then Pakistan has urged both sides to resume talks to end fighting in Afghanistan.
