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Kabul: Thousands of religious scholars and ethnic leaders from across Afghanistan will gather this week to discuss key issues for the first time since the Taliban took power last year.
"Very soon a great gathering will be held in Kabul," Taliban administration spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said, adding that religious scholars and ethnic leaders from all provinces would participate in the meeting which clerics had called for.
The meeting will start on Wednesday in the capital Kabul and run for three days, a source with knowledge of the matter said, adding that 3,000 people would attend, there was no set agenda, and participants would raise the issues they wanted to discuss.
Three civil society groups held a news conference in Kabul on Tuesday, saying they supported the idea of a gathering, but that civil society members and women needed to be included.
