NEW DELHI: The US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation, Zalmay Khalilzad, will be in India on Thursday to discuss a deadlocked pact arrived at between the US and Taliban in February that aimed at starting intra-Afghan talks to bring peace to the war-torn country.
Khalilzad was in Qatar on Thursday at the start of a three-nation tour that will see also him visit Pakistan, a statement by the US State Department said late Wednesday.
His visit to Qatar was for talks with the Taliban who have stood firm on their demand that the Ashraf Ghani government in Kabul release 5,000 Taliban prisoners before the intra-Afghan peace talks can begin.
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