According to FrontPage Magazine, the Taliban are ready to enter into peace talks with the Afghan government.
Diplomacy, defense and development.
The three Ds that have made up the West’s strategy in the war in Afghanistan are now starting to pay dividends nearly six years after the US-led invasion toppled the brutal Taliban regime. Earlier this month, greatly underreported by the media but ground-breaking nevertheless, the Taliban signaled its readiness to start peace negotiations with the Kabul government, indicating a setback if not defeat. The Taliban’s preparedness to discuss peace, dropping its long-standing demand that NATO troops must leave the country first, came only two days after Afghanistan’s president, Hamid Karzai, said he was willing to hold talks.
“For the sake of national interests…we are fully ready for talks with the government,” Yousuf Ahmed, a Taliban spokesman, was quoted as saying.
This striking and significant breakthrough in the Afghanistan conflict came after last month’s “jirga” (tribal meeting) in Kabul.
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