{"id":576398,"date":"2010-05-24T09:28:30","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T13:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=85516"},"modified":"2010-05-24T09:28:30","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T13:28:30","slug":"an-exploratory-karzai-taliban-peace-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/576398","title":{"rendered":"An Exploratory Karzai-Taliban Peace Summit?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks to al-Jazeera, footage has emerged of what may be a nascent or exploratory peace negotiation between the Afghan government, the Taliban and a Taliban affiliate and longtime guerilla leader, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar.<\/p>\n

For months, there have been occasional reports of representatives from the parties to the conflict — one stretching back nine, 15 or 30 years, depending on how continuous you wish to characterize the belligerents as fighting for similar causes — meeting in the Maldives<\/a>, a placid Indian Ocean island nation neutral in the fight. But now, al-Jazeera cameras have captured images of a man described as an “Afghan governor” and several parliamentarians and foreign-ministry representatives meeting with men described as Taliban and Hekmatyar deputies:<\/span><\/p>\n

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The network reports that the talks are informal. And they come in advance of President Hamid Karzai’s “consultative peace jirga<\/a>” intended to define the contours of an olive branch to the Taliban — a summit that apparently will be delayed by a week<\/a>. So even if the Maldives talks are informal, they at least represent a mechanism through which the peace jirga’s terms might be delivered to the insurgents, and through which a response might emerge.<\/p>\n

(Via Joshua Foust’s Twitter feed<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thanks to al-Jazeera, footage has emerged of what may be a nascent or exploratory peace negotiation between the Afghan government, the Taliban and a Taliban affiliate and longtime guerilla leader, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. For months, there have been occasional reports of representatives from the parties to the conflict — one stretching back nine, 15 or 30 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4314,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-576398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576398","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=576398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}