Abdullah Abdullah, head of the National Reconciliation Council, said he and former President Hamid Karzai met with Qatari Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani today to discuss the situation in Afghanistan and the formation of a coalition government. (TOLOnews)
Taliban’s spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid, who appeared before the media for the first time in a decade at a press conference after the insurgent group seized Kabul last month, said that he lived in the Afghan capital right under the nose of his adversaries who considered him a 'ghost-like' figure during the war.
An audio file attributed to a Taliban official, said to be Mullah Fazel, the Taliban's Deputy Defence Minister surfaced in which he says that the "Punjabi guest" (referring to Pakistani intelligence chief Gen Faiz Hameed) had created a major problem for the group and prevented the formation of an inclusive government.