Washington: The White House said Thursday there are currently no meetings planned in Qatar between US and Taliban officials to discuss possible peace talks on Afghanistan, as Taliban sources had indicated.
"The United States currently has no meetings with the Taliban scheduled in Doha," National Security Council spokeswoman Bernadette Meehan said.
"We remain supportive of an Afghan-led reconciliation process whereby the Taliban and the Afghans engage in talks toward a settlement to resolve the conflict in Afghanistan."
State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki added: "We are not in direct talks with the Taliban, and there have not been any direct talks between the US and the Taliban since January 2012, when the Taliban broke them off."
Taliban sources earlier told AFP five former members of the supreme council of the Afghan Taliban would meet soon with US officials in Qatar, where the group briefly opened an office in June 2013.
The sources gave conflicting accounts of when the meetings might begin, with one suggesting as early as Thursday and another saying it would more likely be in the coming week.
And then the Taliban's main spokesman also denied any talks were in the works.
