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Abid Hussain

Can China make Pakistan and the Taliban friends again?

Wang Yi, Amir Khan Muttaqi and Ishaq Dar met in Kabul on August 20 for the trilateral dialogue among foreign ministers of China, Afghanistan and Pakistan [Handout/Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs]

Islamabad, Pakistan – With clasped hands and half-smiles, the foreign ministers of Pakistan, China and Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban posed as they gathered in Kabul on Wednesday for a trilateral meeting.

It was the second such meeting between Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, Pakistan’s Ishaq Dar and their Afghan counterpart Amir Khan Muttaqi in 12 weeks, after they huddled together in Beijing in May.

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