Blinken says he will travel to Qatar and Germany to discuss Afghan evacuees

Trade is expected to be among the key topics during the Kabul visit of Pakistan’s main intelligence agency head, Faiz Hameed, according to Pakistani officials with knowledge of the matter. Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence, or ISI, is widely seen as having been instrumental to the Taliban’s survival and battlefield success. Pakistan has long denied that it maintains covert ties with the group.