The Washington Post reported Tuesday that US Central Intelligence Agency Director William Burns met with Taliban co-founder Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar in a covert meeting in Kabul.
The meeting on Monday, which, if verified, will be the highest-level contact between the Islamist organization and the Biden administration since the insurgents retook power, came as efforts to evacuate thousands of people from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan grew more urgent.
Burns is one of US Vice President Joe Biden’s most experienced diplomats, while Baradar, the former head of the Taliban’s political office in Qatar, is one of the most powerful figures in the Kabul regime.
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