Qatar Taliban Office

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  Taliban Didn't Want India To Evacuate Kabul Embassy Staff: Sources

  The Taliban did not want India to evacuate diplomats from its Kabul embassy, sources told NDTV today, indicating that the government had received messages from the group's Qatar office assuring them of the safety of its staff and security people.

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  Huge Diplomatic Crisis As Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, Egypt Cut Ties With Qatar

  Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates announced today that they were severing diplomatic ties with Qatar, as tensions escalate in the region over accusations Doha sponsors terrorism.

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  Afghan Talks Agree on Reopening Taliban Political Office

  Representatives at preliminary talks aiming to end Afghanistan's long war have agreed that Taliban insurgents should open a political office for negotiations, but disagreement over foreign troops is still hampering prospects for a ceasefire.

• Pakistan National Security Advisor to visit Afghanistan

  A top aide to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will travel to Afghanistan on Sunday to bridge differences over the Taliban's political office and to prepare grounds for President Hamid Karzai's visit to Islamabad, officials said today.

• Taliban office plot to break up Afghanistan, says Hamid Karzai's aide

  The Taliban office in Doha was a plot to break up Afghanistan orchestrated by either Pakistan or the United States, a top aide to the Afghan president has said.

• Taliban close Qatar office to protest flag fracas

  A diplomat and Taliban official say the Afghan Taliban are closing their Qatar office at least temporarily to protest demands they remove a sign that identified the movement as the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.

• US 'outraged' over how the Taliban office opened: envoy

  US envoy James Dobbins on Monday said Washington was outraged at how the Taliban opened an office in Qatar that was intended as a first step towards a peace deal in Afghanistan.

• Conditions for Taliban talks not met yet: US Secretary of State John Kerry

  US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Monday that conditions for talks with the Taliban in Afghanistan had not been met yet, after a spat over a new Taliban office in Qatar threatened to derail peace negotiations.

• US warns Taliban as envoy heads to Qatar

  The United States warned Saturday that it could call on the Taliban to close an office in Qatar unless it shows more commitment to reconciliation in Afghanistan.

• India supports Hamid Karzai in spat over Taliban office

  India has come out in strong support of Afghan President Karzai in his dispute with the US over the Afghan Taliban office opened in Doha, Qatar on Tuesday.

• Afghan peace bid on hold over Kabul-Taliban protocol row

  A fresh effort to end Afghanistan's 12-year-old war was in limbo on Thursday after a diplomatic spat about the Taliban's new Qatar office delayed preliminary discussions between the United States and the Islamist insurgents.

• US welcomes Qatar decision on Taliban name change

  The United States on Thursday welcomed Qatar's decision to take down a sign that cast the Taliban's new office in Doha as a rival Afghan embassy saying the militant group can't represent itself "as an emirate, government or sovereign."

• Afghan peace plans in limbo as US placates Hamid Karzai

  Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Thursday mulled his response to US efforts to repair damaged ties after a public spat over the Taliban opening an office in Qatar for peace talks.

• US officials to meet Taliban within days

  United States envoys will meet with Taliban representatives within days, senior officials said on Tuesday, after the Afghan militants opened an office in Qatar to oversee peace negotiations.

• Taliban to open Doha office on Tuesday: Jazeera TV

  A Taliban office, touted as a tool to help facilitate talks between the militants and the Afghan government, will open on Tuesday in Doha, the Qatar-based Al-Jazeera television reported.