Afghan President Ashraf Ghani (R) and Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif attend a news conference in Kabul, May 12, 2015. REUTERS/Omar Sobhani
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - 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 towards ending more than 13 years of war in neighbouring Afghanistan, where the Taliban have been trying to re-establish their hard-line Islamist regime after it was toppled by U.S.-led military intervention in 2001.
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