Afghanistan peace delegation has reportedly met former Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar in Islamabad to kick-start the peace process, Pakistani officials said.
A five-member delegation of Afghanistan’s High Peace Council (HPC) led by its Chairman Salahuddin Rabbani visited Pakistan from November 19 to 21, Dawn News reports.
According to the report, Baradar handed a special message from the Taliban Shura council to the delegation representing Afghanistan’s HPC during the meeting.
The HPC is the Afghan body charged with opening negotiations with Taliban insurgents as US-led NATO forces prepare to withdraw from the country by the end of next year, the report added.
Baradar was freed from Pakistan jail in September, as part of efforts to boost Afghanistan’s peace process, but it appears that he has been kept under house arrest since then. (ANI)