The meeting was attended by university professors, scholars and media members. “In the past two years, we have been working on building confidence in order to have talks with the armed opposition," said Mohammad Akram Khapalwak, head of the High Peace Council.
“And now the ground is favorable and we are getting closer to talks with the armed opposition,” the top peace negotiator said, calling the meeting the first step in beginning talks with the rebels because ideas and suggestions of the participants would be . . .
