Upon returning from Abu Dhabi, President Ashraf Ghani on Monday evening went to the second deputy chief executive Mohammad Mohaqiq’s house to extend his condolences for the death of Mohaqiq's son.

Mohaqiq on Sunday confirmed that his son Mohammad Hussain Mohaqiq killed his other son Mohammad Baqir Mohaqiq, and cited Hussain’s “mental illness.”

The United States negotiators and Taliban members met in Qatar on Sunday evening – after days of informal meetings – to discuss “the results of the talks and the next steps for process,” a spokesman of the group in Doha, Suhail Shaheen, said in a tweet.

The Qatari Foreign Minister, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, was also at the meeting in which US special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad as well as Taliban’s deputy leader Abdul Ghani Baradar, Mohammad Fazil, Mullah Khairullah Khairkhwah, Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi were also present, according to Shaheen.