{"id":71669,"date":"2019-10-03T11:49:10","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T11:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=71669"},"modified":"2019-10-03T11:49:11","modified_gmt":"2019-10-03T11:49:11","slug":"taliban-us-envoy-in-pak-to-review-broken-peace-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/taliban-us-envoy-in-pak-to-review-broken-peace-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban, US envoy in Pak to review broken peace talks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Afghan Taliban officials were due in Pakistan on Wednesday, the insurgent group said, even as the top US diplomat involved in talks with the militants also met government officials there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Taliban delegation will be led by Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, to discuss \u201cimportant issues\u201d with Pakistani officials in the Capital, Islamabad, Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen said on Twitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Baradar, one of the group\u2019s founders, was making his first known visit to Pakistan since he was released a year ago from a Pakistani jail. He later assumed the role of the Taliban\u2019s chief negotiator with the United States on a withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan. Baradar, who previously coordinated the group\u2019s military operations in southern Afghanistan, was arrested in 2010 by a team from Pakistani and the US intelligence agencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Taliban visit comes after efforts by the militants and the United States to reach a deal allowing for the withdrawal of US-led foreign forces that broke down last month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The top US negotiator in the talks, special representative for Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad, met Pakistani counterparts in Islamabad this week, following discussions between US.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghan Taliban officials were due in Pakistan on Wednesday, the insurgent group said, even as the top US diplomat involved in talks with the militants also met government officials there. The Taliban delegation will be led by Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, to discuss \u201cimportant issues\u201d with Pakistani officials in the Capital, Islamabad, Taliban spokesman Suhail [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71670,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71671,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71669\/revisions\/71671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}