Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has reportedly resumed backdoor diplomacy with the Taliban in order to revive the peace process that had crumbled towards the end of former President Hamid Karzai's regime.
Sources familiar with the development said that the dialogue, aimed at assimilating the militant group into Afghanistan's political system, has begun under the supervision of the United Nations. Officials in Islamabad confirmed that it had assured the Afghan government and the Taliban that it would help to revive the peace process, reported The Express Tribune.
Attempts to broker peace with the Taliban crumbled last year after Karzai objected to the opening of a political office by the Taliban in the Qatari capital of Doha. Terming it an affront to his government's legitimacy, he had refused to recognise the Taliban office.