Pakistan to host 3rd Afghan peace talks

Update: 2016-01-29 23:30 GMT
Pakistan will host the third meeting of four-way talks next week aimed at reviving the stalled peace process between the Afghan government and the Taliban, a top official said today.

Foreign Office spokesman Qazi Khalilullah said that the meeting of quadrilateral group involving Afghanistan, China, Pakistan and the US will be held on February 6 in Islamabad.

Khalilullah said that the meeting would discuss the road map for reconciliation in Afghanistan.

It would be third such meeting in recent weeks. The group of four was set up in December to facilitate the talks with the Taliban which were stalled in July after news of Taliban chief Mullah Omar’s death. 

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