{"id":83090,"date":"2016-10-22T07:15:36","date_gmt":"2016-10-22T07:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/taliban-delegation-in-islamabad\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T07:15:36","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T07:15:36","slug":"taliban-delegation-in-islamabad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/taliban-delegation-in-islamabad\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban delegation in Islamabad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"262\" src=\"\/Uploads\/2016\/2016 Online\/10 October\/22 Oct\/Tayyab-Agha-resigned-as-head-of-Talibans-Qatar-office.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>QUEETA\/ KABUL (SW): A delegation of the Taliban has apparently touched-down from Qatar in Islamabad to consult with the Pakistani officials about the proposed talks with Kabul.<\/p>\n<p>Abdul Razaq Barq, a Queeta-based correspondent has reported that the Taliban delegation comprising of Mulla Shahabudin DIilawar, Mullah Jan Mohammad Madani and Mullah Abdul Salam held talks with Pakistani officials in Islamabad. &ldquo;It seems they seek guidance from the Pakistani officials for ways and means to take the peace talks with the Afghan government ahead&rdquo;, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban delegation is likely to return to Queeta, but there is no official word from the Islamabad government or the Taliban in this regard.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Mohibullah Shareef, an expert on security affairs told Salam Watandar that parties to this matter want to keep the details secret. &ldquo;This is a secret matter so far, but it seems there is definitely talks going on, and the results of these talks do not become public very soon&rdquo;, he said. Waheed Mujda, another expert on security, has confirmed that a Taliban delegation from Qatar has visited Pakistan. He added that the purpose of this visit was to push for the release of their men arrested by Pakistani authorities. &ldquo;There visit was for a different purpose, some of their men are arrested in Pakistan and the Qatar delegation has gone to Pakistan to resolve this issue&rdquo;, Mujda said.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QUEETA\/ KABUL (SW): Taliban delegation has touched-down from Qatar in Islamabad to consult with the Pakistani officials about peace talks with Kabul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-83090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}