President Ghani and Mutlaq bin Majed Al-Qahtani, currently the Special Envoy of the Foreign Minister of the State of Qatar for Counterterrorism and Mediation of Conflict Resolution, have agreed to hold intra-Afghan negotiations in Doha, capital of Qatar, Al Jazeera Arabic reported.

Last week, Qahtani visited Kabul and met with President Ghani and other Afghan leaders and discussed the Afghan peace process.

During his visit, Qahtani also met with the Taliban delegation in Kabul.

A Presidential Palace official said that the government of Afghanistan has accepted that the preliminary intra-Afghan negotiations be held in Qatar, but “so far there has been no agreement over holding the main intra-Afghan talks in Qatar.”

In this episode host Nemat Rawan discusses the topic with the following guests:

Gul Ahmad Kamin, parliament member
Fazl Ahmad Oria, political analyst
Mosa Khan Akbarzada, former governor of Ghazni province