Pakistan holds ‘good’ meeting with Taliban in Qatar amid strained ties

Pakistani diplomats held a “good” meeting with the representatives of Afghanistan’s Taliban-led interim government in Qatar this week during which they discussed bilateral and regional issues, in what was seen as an effort to ease tension and mend strained ties between the two neighbours.

The Afghan Taliban delegation, which was in Qatar’s capital of Doha to attend a UN-sponsored meeting



on Afghanistan this week, was hosted over a dinner by the Pakistani mission in Qatar on the sidelines of the conference, the Dawn newspaper reported Tuesday.

Zabihullah Mujahid, chief Taliban government spokesman who headed the delegation to Doha, described his meeting with Pakistani diplomats as “good” and expressed the hope for developing “positive relations” with Pakistan, the paper said.