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Karzai confirms 'unofficial talks' with Taliban | Afghan President Hamid Karzai has confirmed
that contact between the Taliban and his administration has been going on unofficially for quite some time to try to end the nine-year war. Karzai has said he will
negotiate with any insurgents who accept the Afghan constitution and sever links
with al Qaeda "We have been talking to the Taliban as countryman to countryman,
talk in that manner," Karzai told CNN's Larry King when asked about a Washington
Post report on secret high-level talks between the two sides. "Not as a regular
official contact with the Taliban with a fixed address but rather unofficial personal
contacts have been going on for quite some time," he said in excerpts of the CNN
interview. Last week the Washington Post said the secret talks were believed to
involve the Afghan government and representatives authorised by the Quetta Shura,
the Afghan Taliban group based in Pakistan , and Taliban leader Mullah Omar. The
Telegraph reports that Karzai's interview is being aired one day after Afghanistan
's former president Burhanuddin Rabbani was elected chairman of a new peace council,
a Karzai initiative set up to broker an end to the war with the Taliban. "Now
that the peace council has come into existence, these talks will go on and will
go on officially and more rigorously I hope," Karzai told King. |
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