{"id":90141,"date":"2019-02-26T04:32:29","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T04:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/top-taliban-leader-meets-u-s-delegation-in-qatar\/"},"modified":"2020-12-19T13:03:07","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T13:03:07","slug":"top-taliban-leader-meets-u-s-delegation-in-qatar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/top-taliban-leader-meets-u-s-delegation-in-qatar\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Taliban leader meets U.S. delegation in Qatar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2019\/February\/26\/Mullah Beradar.PNG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; For the very first time, one of the founding leaders of the Taliban, Mullah Beradar, met the U.S. delegation for peace talks in Doha, Qatar on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Appreciate Qatar for hosting &amp; Pakistan in facilitating travel. Now the work begins in earnest,&quot; U.S. special envoy for peace in Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, said in a Twitter post and added he is meeting with a more authoritative Taliban delegation which could be a significant moment.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Just finished a working lunch with Mullah Baradar and his team. First time we&#39;ve met. Now moving on to talks,&quot; Khalilzad added.<\/p>\n<p>The formal talks between U.S. and Taliban begin on Tuesday, where Khalilzad will lead the U.S. team.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; For the very first time, one of the founding leaders of the Taliban, Mullah Beradar, met the U.S. delegation for peace talks in Doha, Qatar on Tuesday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-90141","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\/90141","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=90141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}