DHAKA: Afghan negotiators seeking peace with the Taliban will soon travel to Pakistan for their first meeting with key militant commander Mullah Baradar.

Officials said Wednesday, reports The Straits Times.

Afghan president Hamid Karzai said in a statement that a deal had been reached after talks on Tuesday in London with Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif.

Baradar was freed from jail in Pakistan in September as part of efforts to kickstart Afghanistan’s peace process, but since his ‘release’ it appears he has been kept under house arrest by the Pakistanis.

‘It was agreed on that a High Peace Council delegation will visit Pakistan and meet with Mullah Baradar in the near future,’ the statement from Karzai’s office said.

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