Khalilzad in a sentence

And yet Khalilzad continues to push for engagement with the Taliban.

Ahead of those meetings, allied officials were briefed last month by the top American commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Austin S. Miller and the chief negotiator for the United States, Zalmay Khalilzad, a former ambassador.

A source with knowledge of the peace talks said that the US special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad has been in Qatar over the past week and has held an informal meeting with the Taliban deputy leader Abdul Ghani Baradar.

But Hamdullah Mohib, National Security Adviser to President Ghani, went a step further, blasting Khalilzad for selling out Afghanistan, betraying the trust of a strategic ally, and questioning the intentions of Trump’s Afghan-born emissary.

But he has since been supportive of the talks led by Khalilzad.

In the face of an impending political deadlock, the U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad attempted in vain to broker a deal, a day ahead of the scheduled intra-Afghan dialogue.

Khalilzad announced that Washington and the Taliban had reached an “agreement in principle” with regard to the withdrawal of American troops from the war in Afghanistan.

Khalilzad’s recent travels to Doha, Delhi and Islamabad, are seemingly predominantly aimed at ironing out an impasse in the agreement over the release of prisoners and intra-Afghan negotiations – for which regional harmony is necessary.

Khalilzad was hopeful during his trip and thought the Taliban were ready for more serious discussions, and that the Taliban’s plans were at an unacceptable level to (the US side) in terms of reducing violence.

Mr. Khalilzad wrote on his twitter, “This consensus is a meaningful step,” which can lead us towards the intra-Afghan negotiations.

Taliban say they handed cease-fire offer to U.S. peace envoyThe cease-fire offer was handed to Zalmay Khalilzad, Washington's envoy for talks with the insurgents, late on Wednesday in Qatar, a Gulf Arab country where the.

The intra-Afghan talks stem from the landmark agreement that Zalmay Khalilzad, U.S. peace envoy for Afghanistan, negotiated and signed with the Taliban in February.

U.S. peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad, who has led the negotiations with the Taliban since September 2018, has been instrumental in the latest developments.

US point-man for Afghanistan reconciliation, Zalmay Khalilzad, in a recent interview rejected the perceptions of some Afghans – especially that of 1st VP Amrullah Saleh’s – that the US will remain in the country due to its geopolitical interests.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement that the peace agreement, to be signed in Doha, Qatar, by U.S. special envoy for Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad and Taliban representatives, will eventually lead to a permanent cease-fire.

Washington dispatched Special Envoy Zalmay Khalilzad on a diplomatic mission late last week to Afghanistan, Qatar, and Pakistan in an attempt to press for direct talks between the Taliban and the Kabul government of President Ashraf Ghani.

After the Doha talks, the US special representative, Zalmay Khalilzad, tweeted about the “significant progress on vital issues”.

After the meeting, Khalilzad gave an interview to Tolo News on December 20, 2018, which gives an indication of US thinking on its future course of action in Afghanistan.

A major weakness of Khalilzad’s withdrawal agreement is its failure to hold Pakistan to account.

A stable Afghanistan could even benefit Pakistan, thus it must take practical step for peace, Khalilzad said assuring effort for region consensuses on peace mission.