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| Afghanistan |
| Afghan officials and Taliban talk despite wave of violence |
| 2018-02-15 |
| [DAWN] Afghan officials are carrying out at least two tracks of talks with the Taliban ...Arabic for students... , it has been learned, even after a month of brutal bombings and attacks by the gunnies that killed nearly 200 and despite US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... ’s angry rejection of any negotiations for now. The persistence of the back-channel contacts reflects the desire to keep a door open for reconciliation even as the Afghan government and its top ally, the United States, fumble for a strategy to end the protracted war, now entering its 17th year. Rifts within the Afghan government have grown vast, even as the Taliban gain territory and wage increasingly ruthless tactics. The United States has unleashed heavier air power against the Taliban and other krazed killers. After the string of Taliban attacks in recent weeks, Trump angrily condemned the group. "We don’t want to talk with the Taliban," he said. "There may be a time but it’s going to be a long time." Still, Afghanistan’s intelligence chief Masoom Stanikzai and its National Security Chief Mohammed Hanif Atmar continue to each talk separately to the Taliban, say those familiar with the backdoor negotiations. The problem, however, is that neither is talking to the other or to the High Peace Council, which was created by the government to talk peace with the Taliban, they said, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... to discuss the contacts. |
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