Al-Jazeera correspondent quoted a source in the Taliban movement as saying that the head of the movement's political bureau, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, arrived in the Afghan capital, Kabul, and that he was in talks to form a new government.
For his part, the head of the Afghan Reconciliation Committee Abdullah Abdullah said that he and former Afghan President Hamid Karzai held detailed talks with the Taliban regarding negotiations and the political system.
A Taliban official revealed the existence of consultative meetings between the movement's leaders and officials from the former Afghan government.
He pointed out that the movement will offer some members of the former regime to take up positions in the new government, in which he said that women will have a role.
On the other hand, a member of the Taliban's political bureau, Anas Haqqani, met with clans and civil society activists in the eastern province of Khost.
Eyewitnesses said that the meeting dealt with a number of local issues and the future of the country.
For his part, the leader of the Afghan Islamic Party, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, said that talks to form a new government will begin with the arrival of Taliban leaders to Afghanistan.
Hekmatyar added, in statements he made to reporters on Friday in Kabul, that "official talks between Afghan political leaders and the Taliban, with the aim of forming a new government, will begin with the arrival of the movement's leaders in Kabul," noting that there are indications of the Taliban's desire to form an inclusive government.
In turn, the spokesman for the Taliban office, Suhail Shaheen, said - in an interview with the Chinese state-run International Television Network - that talks are underway to form an inclusive government in Afghanistan.
He added that it is possible to talk about an Afghan government that does not exclude anyone, with some personalities joining it. He stressed that China can contribute to Afghanistan's development efforts in the future.