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However an official with the Pakistani Foreign Ministry said that two days of talks would begin on Wednesday.

A delegation from Afghanistan’s president is meeting representatives of the Taliban in the Pakistani capital, officials said, in the first publicly acknowledged talks with the insurgents fighting to topple the government in Kabul.

An official from the Afghan government’s high peace council told The Associated Press that the meeting took place Tuesday in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad. As security has deteriorated, a handful of Afghan districts have fallen under Taliban control. That toll includes...

Another Pakistani government official doubted whether the talks would have any positive outcome, claiming that the Afghan government was actually holding discussions with a splinter factor of the Taliban led by Mullah Mansoor Dadullah – who had allegedly been cut off by the...