The US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation, Zalmay Khalilzad, in a tweet on Saturday said that he had “the most productive session” with the Taliban in the last six days of the seventh round of the United States and the Taliban in Qatar.

Khalilzad said that they made “substantive progress” on all four parts of a peace agreement which according to him, include counter-terrorism assurances, troop withdrawal, participation in intra-Afghan dialogue and negotiations, and permanent and comprehensive ceasefire.

A delegation of 50 members from the Afghan political elites, civil society members, youths and journalists on Saturday left Kabul for Doha to attend an intra-Afghan dialogue which according to critics is a platform for discussions on the ongoing efforts for peace and reconciliation in war-ravaged Afghanistan.

The delegates who attended the two rounds of talks with the Taliban in Moscow this year are not among the intra-Afghan dialogue members in Doha.