US-Taliban Talks End Without Result, Pakistani TV Says

The talks between the US and Taliban in Qatar have ended without reaching any results, a Pakistani Tv channel has reported.

A Pakistan TV Channel, Dunya News, has reported that representatives of the Haqqani Network and Hezb-e-Islami led by Gulbduddin Hekmatyar were also present during the talks between the US and the Taliban.

The talks, according to Dunya News, focused mainly on broad-based government in Afghanistan, accepting President Hamid Karzai's leadership, and establishment of a government system similar to the one in Iraq, to which the Taliban have not agreed and the talks have ended without any results.

The Taliban have reported put forward certain demands that have caused the talks to lead to no achievement.

The report has yet to be independently confirmed, but if true this is the first time US representatives have met with representatives of three anti-government armed groups.

The Afghan government has recently announced that it has reached some agreements with Washington, but no details of the talks have been provided.

It comes as the Afghan High Peace Council has frequently stressed on an Afghan-led peace process.

There have been reports previously that the US had held secret talks with some Taliban representatives for ten months, something that provoked strong reaction of the Afghan government.

Pakistani Prime Minister Yosuf Raza Gilani also went to Qatar recently to discuss Afghan peace with officials there.

US officials have announced that Washington is trying to speed up the talks with the Taliban and that it will officially be announced at the upcoming Chicago summit.