Qatar: In the preliminary talks to bring a satisfactory solution to the ongoing long war in Afghanistan, representatives from authority side have decided to allow the Taliban insurgents to open their political office in Qatar.
But the disagreements regarding the presence of foreign troops in Afghanistan has been remaining as a constraint for a ceasefire prospect.
A statement issued regarding the two day meeting held at Qatar has outlined that among the 40 delegates participated in the non-official meeting include representatives belong to Afghan government, Taliban and U.N. representatives.
As per the statement, the dialogue was a step toward a peace process that has proved unidentifiable during a war which already killed tens of thousands of Afghans since the Taliban were driven from power by a 2001 U.S.-led military operation.
As a further blow for peace hopes, Taliban fighters have killed at least 18 policemen recently in an attack occurred in the northeastern province.
Insurgents have also pressed an assault on Kunduz city, a provincial capital in the north.
In Qatar the delegates have agreed that the Taliban could re-open a political office in Doha that caused a furor in 2013 when it was briefly inaugurated as part of a previous, failed attempt to start negotiations.
At the televised inauguration ceremony, the Taliban representatives had raised the flag of their former government.
This was really an enraging event to the then president Hamid Karzai.
In Washington, U.S. State Department spokesman Jeff Rathke has declined comments on the report of a new Taliban office and added that an Afghan-led peace process was the best hope for the country and the region.

Video on the reopening of Taliban’s political office in Qatar