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President Karzai set up the High Peace Council last autumn following a national congress or “jirga” in June which approved the principle of seeking a deal with the insurgent groups, which include Gulbuddin Hekmatyar’s Hezb-i Islami faction and the “Haqqani network” as well as the Taleban.From the outset, the council has faced simultaneous accusations that it is failing to make headway, and also that it is too willing to compromise, for example by securing the release of captive insurgents for little return.The upper house of parliament, the Meshrano Jerga, recently deemed the government’s strategy of engagement a failure, arguing that the security situation had deteriorated rather than improved since the peace council came into being.Political analyst Jawid Kohistani says negotiations to date have failed to reel in any of senior Taleban figures, and any engagement has been with inconsequential groups. More here.
Would Karzai and the West be satisfied with Kabul and the surrounding area?
ReplyDeleteWould they be open to a partition of Afghanistan?
karzai must be hearing many foot steps.
All puppets do.
He must be more paranoid from his own shadow, than from reality.
I saw somewhere this morning that Karzai might retire in 2014.
ReplyDeleteI believe it will be sooner.
And most likely not of his own choosing.
Start listening for Zalmay Khalilzad.
I am sure he is grooming a new puppet.
Yes I think there is a new puppet in the pipeline. The CIA/Isaf spin against Karzai has been going on for some time
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