US envoy to Afghanistan to testify before lawmakers
(WorldNews Pakistan)

WASHINGTON: The US envoy who negotiated with the Taliban will testify behind closed doors to Congress on Thursday, 12 days after President Donald Trump abruptly ended talks with the Afghan militants. The House of Representatives´ Foreign Affairs Committee issued a subpoena to force Zalmay Khalilzad to appear after it complained about being kept in the dark over the negotiating process. `We have reached an accommodation... to hear from Ambassador Khalilzad in a classified briefing,` Eliot Engel, the...