The Taliban has set the timeline on foreign forces withdrawal from Afghanistan as a precondition for engaging in intra-Afghan talks as a delegation from the group is visiting China to meet with officials in Beijing as part of a peace process ahead of their possible talks with the US officials in Qatar.

Suhail Shaheen, a spokesman for Taliban's Qatar office, said that it is only the Afghan people who will determine the future government in the country, but he did not mention anything about talks with the Kabul government.

Electoral observers have reacted with surprise to the recent contradictory statements by members of the Independent Election Commission (IEC) over issues around the upcoming presidential elections.

In her latest statement, Hawa Alam Nuristani, the head of the IEC, said that the commission had registered over 400,000 new voters between June 8 and 15 while the commission’s spokesman has put the figure at 41,000 voters during this period.