President Ashraf Ghani is seeking national input for talks with the Taliban
KABUL—Afghan President Ashraf Ghani convened a rare assembly of prominent Afghans on Monday to hammer out an approach to peace talks with the Taliban, the latest attempt by the U.S.-backed government to insert itself into the peace process.
“Today we listen to an Afghanistan that hasn’t been heard,” Mr. Ghani told the gathering of 3,200 people. Tribal chiefs, clerics, politicians and civil society leaders were brought to the Afghan capital at government expense for the four-day gathering, known as a loya jirga, aimed at defining...
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