The two sides have met intermittently in the capital of Qatar for several months, but with little success. With the militants winning on the battlefield, the negotiations seem to have lost momentum.
A joint statement late Sunday said they had agreed to a “just solution” and would meet again next week.
“We also agreed that negotiations should not be suspended,” Abdullah Abdullah, who oversees the Afghan government delegation, told AFP on Monday.
However, he pointed out that despite urgent calls by Afghan civil society and the international community for an end to the fighting, neither party has sought a joint ceasefire during the talks.
U.S. special envoy for Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad met with Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan in Islamabad on Monday. He welcomed the latest round of talks, but said on Twitter that “more urgent actions must be taken”.
