...mindless ferocity in a turban...met Afghanistan's Caped President Ashraf Ghani
...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money...
in Kabul on Monday and showed him the draft of a proposed agreement with the bad boys.
Zalmay Khalilzad has spent about a year meeting the Taliban in Doha in a series of talks aimed at ending America’s 18-year-old war in Afghanistan.
The prospective deal centres on a US troop reduction in return for several security guarantees from the Taliban, as well as broader peace talks between the Death Eaters and the Afghan government and an eventual ceasefire.
Mr Khalilzad ‐ a former US ambassador to Afghanistan and Iraq ‐ arrived in the Afghan capital on Sunday evening following a ninth round of talks with the Taliban in the 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. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
i capital.
He met Mr Ghani then and on Monday he showed the Afghan leader a draft of the US-Taliban agreement, officials said.
The discussions are significant because the Afghan government has until now been largely sidelined from talks, though any eventual deal would require the Taliban to talk to Mr Ghani, whom they view as a US stooge.
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