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US 'holds direct talks' with Afghanistan insurgents

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Kabul, Apr.8 (ANI): The US has held direct talks with one of Afghanistan's biggest insurgent factions it has been reported. According to The Telegraph, a deputy to Richard Holbrooke, the new US envoy to the region, has met with a deputy of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar according to the Afghan media.

Hekmatyar, who leads the Hizb-i-Islami party, is a key figure in the country's Taliban-led insurgency.

Afghan media reported that Daud Abedi, his deputy, had met with the US official to discuss what role Hizb-i-Islami could play in ending the Afghan conflict.

US State Department officials were not immediately available to confirm the reports. (ANI)

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