US appoints Khalilzad as special adviser on seeking reconciliation in war-battered Afghanistan

As per the memo, Khalilzad will "lead US efforts to support, facilitate, and participate in a peace process" between government and the Taliban. "Ambassador Khalilzad is going to join the State Department team to assist us in the reconciliation effort, so he will come on and be the State Department's lead person for that purpose," Pompeo had told travelling reporters on his way to Pakistan.

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