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| Afghanistan, US reaffirm support for Taliban peace deal |
| 2013-06-27 |
| [Pak Daily Times] Kabul and Washington reaffirmed on Wednesday that they seek peace with the Taliban despite attacks on a CIA base and the Afghan presidency, repairing a row over the krazed killers' office in Qatar. US President Barack Obama My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you'll join with me as we try to change it... and 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... held a 90-minute conference call to try to revive early efforts to start peace talks as NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... troops prepare to withdraw in 2014 after more than 12 years of fighting against the Taliban. The level of violence still raging in Afghanistan was highlighted when the Taliban launched an assault Tuesday in the heart of Kabul in which three security guards and all five assailants were killed. Gunmen and bombers using fake NATO identification attacked an entrance to the Afghan presidential palace and a nearby building known to house a CIA base in one of the most brazen assaults in Kabul since Karzai narrowly escaped liquidation in April 2008. Tentative steps towards talks were wrecked last week when a new Taliban office in Qatar provoked anger from Afghanistan and the US when it stylised itself as the embassy of a government-in-exile. Karzai refused to send representatives to Qatar and pulled out of separate talks on a security agreement with the US that would allow Washington to keep some troops in Afghanistan after 2014. Washington launched an intense diplomatic effort to pacify Karzai, with telephone calls and dispatching US special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistain, James Dobbins, for face to face talks. "Both presidents talked about the security agreement between Afghanistan and the US, the grinding of the peace processor and Taliban Qatar office," Karzai's office said in statement after the call with Obama. |
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