Making Peace With The Taliban?

Haqqani Taliban fighters in Khost, east Afghanistan. Their representaives visited Kabul for talks. Photograph: Ghaith Abdul-Ahad for the Guardian

Making Peace With The Taliban? UN Pressed To Lift Afghan Sanctions -- The Guardian

Britain and US accept insurgents' demand to end sanctions on ex-Taliban leaders including notorious Mohammed Qalamuddin

Britain and the United States are pressing for United Nations sanctions against 18 former senior Taliban figures to be lifted later this month in the strongest indication yet that the western powers are looking for a negotiated peace with the Taliban.

Candidates include the controversial former head of the regime's religious police, Mohammed Qalamuddin, whose officers were responsible for some of the worst atrocities under the Taliban regime.

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My Comment: This is going to go nowhere since the hardcore element of the Taliban have no interest in dealing and negotiating with the Afghan government and it's NATO allies. But I guess a sign of good faith must be attempted.