Former Afghan president Burhanuddin Rabbani held talks Saturday with the country's ex-king Mohammed Zahir Shah at the monarch's home in Kabul, a family source said.
Rabanni who was president of Afghanistan until his ouster by the Taliban from Kabul in 1996 is a close neighbour of the 87-year-old ex-monarch.
Zahir Shah has been meeting with a stream of Afghanistan's political elite since his return from 29 years in exile on Thursday.
The family source also revealed that the ex-king had lunch on Saturday with interim administration leader Hamid Karzai at Kabul's presidential palace.
Karzai, a noted royalist who accompanied the Zahir Shah back from Rome also visited the monarch at his home in the relatively upmarket Wazir Akbar Khan neighbourhood on Friday. He then went with Zahir Shah to visit a mausoleum housing the tomb of the former king's murdered father Nadir Shah.
Zahir Shah came to the throne in 1933 after his father's assassination in the grounds of the royal palace. Bureau Report