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| US-Taliban Talks Hurt Afghan Sovereignty |
| 2011-02-21 |
| [Tolo News] US efforts to hold direct talks with the Taliban would bring Afghanistan's independence under question, a bigwig in High Peace Council said Sunday. High Peace Council is in need of support from international community, but their direct intervention would plunge the country into further more challenges. The New Yorker magazine has reported that President Barack B.O.Obama has held secret talks with leading Taliban members to find which members are willing to join Afghan grinding of the peace processor. The magazine said President Karzai's former efforts did not result in any breakthrough, but recent US-backed talks with the Taliban led by Karzai has prepared the ground for further talks. "The mechanism to resolve Afghan challenges should be discussed by Afghan sides and if the US thinks Afghans are not able to handle it, this would damage Afghanistan's illusory sovereignty and it means the country is occupied," Mawlawi Ataullah Ludin, High Peace Council Secretary, told TOLOnews. He says Afghanistan should have the cooperation its neigbours in any efforts to stabilise the country. "We greatly need US, Pakistain and Iran as well as other regional countries to cooperate in Afghan peace efforts," Mr Ludin said. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 If he's not careful, Karzai's unique combination of greed, petulance and incompetence is going to lead to him being suspended from the wrong end of a lamp post. His promotion to president (from restaurateur) has proven to be an expensive reaffirmation of the Peter principle, much like Obama's elevation. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2011-02-21 20:17 |
| #4 Karzai is a putz. He pushed negotiations with the Taliban at a time when Uncle Sam was being steadfast. Having set the precedent of Taliban negotiations, he has given Obama a way out of Afghanistan, which Obama will gladly take, as he waves to Karzai in the rear view mirror. The real question is whether Karzai will stay in Afghanistan and await Najibullah's fate, or take the smart way out and depart on the last Ariana flight out of Kabul. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2011-02-21 20:13 |
| #3 Karzai and Cronies worried we'll cut out the middle man? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2011-02-21 08:35 |
| #2 US efforts to hold direct talks with the Taliban would bring Afghanistan's independence under question, a bigwig in High Peace Council said Sunday. Because its an exclusive Afghan right of long tradition to stab the foreigner in the back with the 'other guy'. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2011-02-21 07:52 |
| #1 BHARAT RAKSHAK > [SecState Hillary] CLINTON: TALIBAN MUST CHOOSE EITHER WAR OR PEACE, i.e. being allowed to legally participate in Govt. Power-sharing, versus risk ultimately being defeated or destroyed for its support for AL QAEDA??? * OTOH SAME > BEYOND REDEMPTION: THE RAYMOND DAVIS AFFAIR COULD DISENGAGE THE US FROM AFPAK FASTER THAN IT HAD PLANNED FOR, SAYS NV SUBRAMANIAN. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-02-21 01:49 |