Taliban, govt hold initial talks on peace

Pakistani PM hails meeting as a 'breakthrough' while suicide bomb attacks continue in Kabul

The first official peace talks between the Afghan Taliban and the government in Kabul concluded with an agreement to meet again after the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, officials said on Wednesday.

Pakistan hosted the meeting in a tentative step toward ending more than 13 years of war in neighboring Afghanistan, where the Taliban have been trying to re-establish their hard line Islamist government after it was toppled by a US-led military intervention in 2001.