The Afghan Taliban have resumed talks with the US in Qatar to find a political solution to the decades-old conflict in Afghanistan though the two sides have been unable to make any headway in the parleys, according to a media report.
The two sides are sticking to “hard conditions” during the initial rounds of the talks, senior unnamed Taliban leaders were quoted as saying by the News, a daily.
The Taliban had opened an office in Qatar on January 3 and named it their “diplomatic office” for talks with the US.
A five-member Taliban delegation led by Tayyab Agha, the brother-in-law and spokesman for Afghan Taliban supreme commander Mullah Moha-mmed Omar, travelled to Qatar three weeks ago and held two rounds of talks with US officials, the Taliban leaders said.
Maulvi Shahabuddin Dilawar, a former Taliban envoy to Saudi Arabia, is another member of the delegation. However, the Taliban leaders said they were not expecting any “immediate breakthroughs” in the ongoing talks.