A former President of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai met with the Taliban on Wednesday to discuss setting up a government.
Taliban commander Anas Haqqani, a senior leader of the Haqqani Network – a militant Taliban faction that overtook Kabul Sunday – sat down with the former leader.
Karzai, the dominant political figure in Afghanistan following the 2001 US invasion, was accompanied by his former government’s main peace envoy, Abdullah Abdullah, according to a Taliban official who declined to be identified.