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US Relaunches Peace Talks with Afghan Taliban

Ayaz Gul

   ISLAMABAD - The United States has formally restarted peace negotiations
   with the Taliban, three months after President Donald Trump abruptly
   stopped the yearlong process aimed at finding a political settlement
   with the insurgent group and ending the war in Afghanistan.

   The Afghan-born U.S. special reconciliation representative, Zalmay
   Khalilzad, is leading his team at Saturday's meeting in Doha, the
   capital of Qatar, where insurgent negotiators are based, a U.S. source
   told VOA.

   "The U.S. rejoined talks today in Doha. The focus of discussion will be
   reduction of violence that leads to intra-Afghan negotiations and a
   cease-fire," the U.S. source.

   The Qatari government played host to the U.S.-Taliban dialogue before
   it was halted by Trump Sept. 7 in retaliation for an insurgent attack
   in the Afghan capital, Kabul, that killed an American solider among
   others.

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