[Pak Daily Times] Taliban are willing to open an office in an Islamic country, a step towards holding face-to-face peace talks with Afghanistan, a member of the Afghan government's team of negotiators with the group said on Sunday. After a series of failed attempt
Curses! Foiled again!
s at talks by Afghans and their Western allies, in November Afghanistan's Caped President Hamid
Maybe I'll join the TalibanKarzai
... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a
Pashtunface on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use...
ruled out negotiations with the Taliban until the bad turban group had an address at which he could contact them.
"What we heard from senior Taliban capos and their relatives, is they agreed on a political office," Arsala Rahmani, a senior member of Afghanistan's High Peace Council said on Sunday. "It would be better to establish one inside Afghanistan if the situation allows."
"We agree and have always called for a political address for the Taliban either in Qatar, Turkey, Soddy Arabia or any Islamic countries and it is in our interest," Rahmani said.
Last week, Afghanistan recalled its ambassador to Qatar hours after an Indian newspaper reported that arrangements had been put in place for a Taliban office in the Gulf state.
The report caused worry in Kabul that the Afghan government would be excluded from the grinding of the peace processor were another country used as a base for talks. The United States wants to seek a political settlement to an expensive, decade-long war, but Afghan officials insist that they must lead the process.