A 10-member team of key Afghan politicians left Kabul on Friday afternoon for a trip to Doha to hold talks with the Taliban amidst escalating violence in Afghanistan. 

Abdullah Abdullah, head of the High Council for National Reconciliation, former vice president Mohammad Karim Khalili, Ata Mohammad Noor, head of the splinter faction of Jamiat-e-Islami, chief negotiator Masoom Stanekzai, Salam Rahimi, Fatima Gailani and State Minister for Peace Affairs Sadat Mansoor Naderi are part of the team.

Program host, Wahid Ahmadi

Panelists: 

Assadullah Saadati, deputy head of HCNR

Dr. Mohammad Javad Asghari, university lecturer

Khalilurrahman Sarwari, university professor