No progress has been achieved so far on implementing the initiative to hold negotiations between the Taliban (banned as a terrorist organization in Russia) and Afghanistan's resistance forces in the Tajik capital, a diplomatic source in Dushanbe told Sputnik on Wednesday

The Federal Information and Broadcasting Minister says that the device used to send the threatening emails to the New Zealand squad belonged to an Indian man named Om Prakash Mishra from Maharashtra.

Prime Minister Imran Khan says decision has been made after meetings in Dushanbe with leaders of Afghanistan's neighbours and especially a lengthy discussion with Tajikistan's President Emomali Rahmon.

The affirmation came at a meeting of the Foreign Ministers of Russia, China, Pakistan and Iran on the margins of the SCO and Collective Security Treaty Organization Summits in Dushanbe.

Negotiations between the Afghan resistance forces and the Taliban movement (recognized as a terrorist group and banned in Russia) may soon take place in Dushanbe, Tajik President Emomali Rahmon and Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan said at a briefing following the talks