Next round of Afghan-Taliban talks set for end July

[WorldNews]

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The Afghan government will meet Taliban insurgents at the end of July for the highly anticipated second round of talks aimed at ending Afghanistan's 13-year war, officials said, with a possible ceasefire high on the agenda. Afghan officials held their first face-to-face talks with Taliban cadres on July 7 in Murree, a tourist town in the hills north of Islamabad, Pakistan, which were supervised by American and Chinese representatives. "The second round of talks... is set for July 30 or 31," said Mohammad Ismail Qasimyar, a member of the Afghan High Peace Council (HPC), the government's top peace negotiating body.

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