CIA director William Burns met the Taliban in Kabul this week as US president Joe Biden faced mounting pressure from western allies to extend the US-led evacuation from Afghanistan beyond August 31.
The secret meeting with Taliban co-founder Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar took place in the Afghan capital on Monday, a person familiar with the encounter told the Financial Times, asking not to be identified.
The engagement came ahead of a G7 meeting on Tuesday where leaders including Boris Johnson, the UK prime minister, and Emmanuel Macron, France’s president, will push Biden for more time to evacuate foreign nationals and Afghan allies.
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