US, Taliban Agree to Continue Talks – By Ayaz Gul (VOA News) / June 30, 2022
ISLAMABAD — The United States and Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban concluded a two-day meeting in Doha, Qatar, Thursday, the first in-person talks between the two sides in more than three months.
Special Representative for Afghanistan Thomas West and Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi led their respective delegations at the negotiating table.
The U.S. halted the dialogue in March when the hard-line Islamist group abruptly decided against allowing all teenage Afghan girls to resume secondary school education.
Muttaqi’s spokesman, Abdul Qahar Balkhi, wrote on Twitter after the Doha meeting that West was accompanied by senior U.S. Treasury Department and White House representatives.
