[DAWN] A three-member delegation from the Taliban’s Qatar...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates...
office is currently in Pakistain to meet authorities -- the first such contact following the breakdown of Islamabad-brokered talks between Kabul
...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title
Most Evil Man in the Worldand didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either....
and the Taliban in May.
The visit comes days after Taliban leaders reportedly held informal meetings with Afghan and US officials in Qatar.
"The delegates -- Maulvi Shahabuddin Dilawar, Maulvi Salam Hanafi and Jan Muhammad -- have been in Pakistain for the past two days," a government official confirmed.
Two of the men served as ministers in Afghanistan’s Taliban-led government, while the third one is a former Taliban ambassador to Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
and Pakistain.