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| Taliban negotiator under house arrest in UAE, says Afghanistan |
| 2014-04-18 |
[DAWN] A leading Taliban peace negotiator has been sent to his room in the United Arab Emirates, officials said on Thursday, dealing a blow to 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... 's efforts to jump-start a nascent Afghan grinding of the peace processor before leaving office. Agha Jan Mutassim, a finance minister during Taliban rule from 1996 to 2001, has been missing for over a week, according to the Afghan government, disappearing after arranging a meeting in Dubai between Afghan and Taliban officials in February. "Mutassim ... one of the key Taliban leaders and who supported Afghan peace initiative, was put under house arrest in the UAE where he lived," the Afghan High Peace Council, a body formed by Karzai to engage in peace talks with the Taliban, said on Thursday. "The Afghan government has made requests to the UAE authorities to lift all the restrictions," it said in a statement. A Western security source in Kabul confirmed Mutassim had been put under house arrest, and that the UAE was considering deporting him to Afghanistan. It was not immediately clear why Mutassim was confined to his home, or who was behind his arrest. Authorities in the UAE declined to comment. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Sounds like he wasn't being politically correct. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2014-04-18 14:29 |