Taliban political team in Pakistan to talk Afghan peace push

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Taliban political team arrived in Pakistan on Monday as efforts appear to be ramping up to get negotiations underway between the Afghan government and the insurgents. The start of the talks, envisaged under a U.S-Taliban peace agreement signed in February, was hampered by a series of delays that have frustrated Washington. Some had expected the negotiations to begin earlier this month. The trip to Pakistan by the Taliban delegation, headed by their political chief Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, will...