{"id":241126,"date":"2010-01-28T08:56:11","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T13:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=75015"},"modified":"2010-01-28T08:56:11","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T13:56:11","slug":"in-london-karzai-dares-taliban-to-join-peace-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/241126","title":{"rendered":"In London, Karzai Dares Taliban to Join Peace Talks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Al Jazeera<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, has said his country must reach out to its “disenchanted brothers” in an effort to stabilise the war ravaged nation.<\/p>\n

Addressing a one-day international conference on Afghanistan’s future in London, the British capital, Karzai said that fighters who are “not part of al-Qaeda or other terror groups” must be reconciled with the government.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The specific plan is to establish a reconciliation initiative that focuses on district-by-district Taliban outreach<\/a>. In the past, the Karzai government’s security ministers have said that they wanted to target mid-level Taliban for reconciliation, while using jobs packages to lure away and reintegrate Taliban foot soldiers. \u00a0This new initiative appears more comprehensive. The New York Times<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cWe see this program as the main pillar for bringing peace to Afghanistan,\u201d said Shaida Mohammed Abdali, the deputy national security adviser.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s an ideological motive for an insurgency like this, and the trouble will not be resolved unless you reach out to the leadership; they are the food of the foot soldiers and where they are getting ideological and political incentives. If we only concentrate on the foot soldiers it will not be a sustainable program.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Karzai seeks $1 billion for his initiative from the London conference. But the question remains: why, absent a loss of momentum through military setback, would the Taliban leadership be interested in reconciliation?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Al Jazeera: Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, has said his country must reach out to its “disenchanted brothers” in an effort to stabilise the war ravaged nation. Addressing a one-day international conference on Afghanistan’s future in London, the British capital, Karzai said that fighters who are “not part of al-Qaeda or other terror groups” must […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4314,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}