Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai has met a Taliban commander and senior leader of the Haqqani Network militant group, Anas Haqqani, for talks amid efforts by the Taliban to set up a government.
Karzai was accompanied by the old government's main peace envoy, Abdullah Abdullah, in the meeting, said a Taliban official, who declined to be identified, on Wednesday.
He did not give more details about their meeting.
The Haqqani Network is an important faction of the Taliban, who captured the capital, Kabul, on Sunday. The network, based on the border with Pakistan, was accused over recent years of some of the most-deadly militant attacks in Afghanistan.
