KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghan government representatives have met with a top-ranking Taliban member in his prison cell in Pakistan, an official said Sunday, suggesting a small step toward reopening stalled peace talks with the insurgent group.
The confirmation came at the end of a bloody weekend that showed how unstable the country is, though NATO is aiming to hand over security responsibility to local forces at the end of 2014 after more than a decade of warfare against insurgents.
Afghanistan’s international allies hope that bringing the Taliban to the negotiating table will ease the pressure on the Afghan government as international forces draw down.
An official with the Afghan High Peace Council, which is tasked with starting talks, said the Pakistani government allowed Afghan government envoys access to Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, a top-ranking Taliban official who was captured in Pakistan in 2010.
His arrest reportedly angered Afghan President Hamid Karzai because Baradar had been in secret talks with the Afghan government.
“Some members from our embassy in Pakistan, they met Mullah Baradar,” said Ismail Qasemyar, the council’s international relations adviser. He declined to give details of the discussions or say when they took place. Officials in Pakistan did not respond to calls seeking comment. Qasemyar said that members of the peace council had not met with Baradar.
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