Afghan Overture to Taliban Aggravates Ethnic Tensions -- New York Times
KABUL, Afghanistan — The drive by President Hamid Karzai to strike a deal with Taliban leaders and their Pakistani backers is causing deep unease in Afghanistan’s minority communities, who fought the Taliban the longest and suffered the most during their rule.
The leaders of the country’s Tajik, Uzbek and Hazara communities, which make up close to half of Afghanistan’s population, are vowing to resist — and if necessary, fight — any deal that involves bringing members of the Taliban insurgency into a power-sharing arrangement with the government.
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My Comment: These Afghans suffered terribly under the Taliban, and they will resist any such agreement. The part on Pakistan intelligence being actively involved in brokering these deals makes me laugh .... they cannot even control the Taliban in their own country, what makes them think they will be able to control the Taliban in Afghanistan.
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