As a Taliban delegation visits Islamabad to meet with senior Pakistani officials, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Idris Zaman, said on Saturday that the group’s aim cannot be peace negotiations, or, if so, such an aim would come to nothing.

The original US-Taliban talks lasted almost a year and were conducted over nine sessions during which both sides finalized an agreement “in principle.” But the negotiations were called off last month by President Trump after a deadly attack by the Taliban in Kabul that killed 12 people, including an American soldier.

In this program, host Noor Wali Shinwari discusses the topic with the following guests:

Mohammad Shafiq Hamdard, political analyst

Shahzada Massoud, political activist

Noor Ahmad Naseri, political analyst