Peace negotiators also met on the second day between the Afghan government and the Taliban on the Doha Dialogue agenda. However, nothing has been publicly disclosed about the conversations that took place during these meetings. Ghulam Farooq Majroh, a member of the team of negotiators from the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, said, “So far no details have been revealed about this meeting but both sides have expressed hope for talks.” It is expected that a demand list has been prepared from both sides and an agenda-based dialogue will be conducted.
Meanwhile, US special envoy Jalal Khalilzad met Taliban deputy leader Abdul Gani Baradar in Qatar and removed the names from the backlist, discussing the release of the remaining prisoners.
After months of fighting over the rules and procedures for peace talks, talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban began in Doha, Qatar’s capital. According to the news agency Xinhua, the statement said, the first meeting of the Joint Committee of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and the opposition was held in Doha to set the agenda for the meeting. Peace talks between the two sides were formally launched in Doha on 12 September. However, negotiations were delayed due to disagreements over the rules.
The first meeting of the country’s High Council for National Reconciliation (HCNR) was inaugurated a day earlier by Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani. During this, he called on the Taliban to follow a nationwide ceasefire, which the militant group refused to accept. Addressing the meeting, the chairman of HCNR, Abdullah Abdullah, said that the Afghan people are in dire need of more political unity and a necessary inclusive ceasefire than ever before. According to UN Mission data, more than 35,000 Afghan civilians have been killed and about 65,000 injured in an armed conflict in Afghanistan since January 2009.
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