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Senior officials from Pakistan, Afghanistan and China are meeting on Wednesday in the Chinese city of Urumqi under the trilateral mechanism, said a senior official from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The meeting is the first high-level diplomatic contact between Islamabad and Kabul after Pakistan launched Operation Ghazab lil-Haq on the night of Feb 26, following cross-border firing by the Afghan Taliban.
The official, who asked not to be named due to the sensitive nature of negotiations, said the meeting is not a “mediation effort per se”.
The additional secretary of Ministry of Foreign Affairs is representing Islamabad.
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