The United States increase their efforts to negotiate a political settlement of the Afghan conflict with the Taliban, the Washington Post reported Tuesday. A U.S. official involved in at least three meetings in Qatar and Germany, one of which there are eight or nine days with an emissary considered a close associate of Mullah Mohammad Omar, the leader of the "religious students", the newspaper said , quoting an Afghan official.
According to the Washington Post, the U.S. government hoped to make progress in the talks before July and the announcement by President Barack Obama to a first withdrawal of U.S. troops from the country under the transfer of security to Afghan forces by 2014. The negotiations could be facilitated by the death of Osama bin Laden, killed by U.S.
commandos on May 2 in Pakistan, as it would be easier for the Taliban to sever their links with Al Qaeda. The Taliban sheltered Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan for years before their overthrow in late 2001. The Washington Post said that talks with the Taliban were organized by non-governmental intermediaries and through Arab and European governments.
The Taliban have insisted on direct negotiations with the Americans and have offered to open a formal office. Qatar has been mentioned. Discussions are preliminary, sued the Washington Post, according to which the Taliban have sent a long list of requirements, including the release of a score of their combatants imprisoned at Guantanamo.
The rebels are also demanding the withdrawal of all foreign troops and guaranteed a significant role in a future government. Afghan and U.S. governments are calling for a commitment of the Taliban to abandon violence and to respect the Afghan constitution, including the rights of women and minorities.
Discussions were held with the party who obey the Taliban Mullah Omar or influence his shura ("Board") based in the Pakistani city of Quetta. No role is played by the Haqqani Network, a group of Afghan fighters based in the Pakistani tribal area of North Waziristan and that the U.S. regards as particularly brutal and impossible to reconcile.
The Haqqani network has long links with the ISI, Pakistani intelligence services, who allegedly used the insurgent group as one of its "strategic assets" in Afghanistan. The ISI has pointed to since the death of Osama bin Laden in the Pakistani garrison city of Abbottabad, suspected of complicity in the mare's head of al-Qaida, or incompetence. 
According to the Washington Post, the U.S. government hoped to make progress in the talks before July and the announcement by President Barack Obama to a first withdrawal of U.S. troops from the country under the transfer of security to Afghan forces by 2014. The negotiations could be facilitated by the death of Osama bin Laden, killed by U.S.
commandos on May 2 in Pakistan, as it would be easier for the Taliban to sever their links with Al Qaeda. The Taliban sheltered Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan for years before their overthrow in late 2001. The Washington Post said that talks with the Taliban were organized by non-governmental intermediaries and through Arab and European governments.
The Taliban have insisted on direct negotiations with the Americans and have offered to open a formal office. Qatar has been mentioned. Discussions are preliminary, sued the Washington Post, according to which the Taliban have sent a long list of requirements, including the release of a score of their combatants imprisoned at Guantanamo.
The rebels are also demanding the withdrawal of all foreign troops and guaranteed a significant role in a future government. Afghan and U.S. governments are calling for a commitment of the Taliban to abandon violence and to respect the Afghan constitution, including the rights of women and minorities.
Discussions were held with the party who obey the Taliban Mullah Omar or influence his shura ("Board") based in the Pakistani city of Quetta. No role is played by the Haqqani Network, a group of Afghan fighters based in the Pakistani tribal area of North Waziristan and that the U.S. regards as particularly brutal and impossible to reconcile.
The Haqqani network has long links with the ISI, Pakistani intelligence services, who allegedly used the insurgent group as one of its "strategic assets" in Afghanistan. The ISI has pointed to since the death of Osama bin Laden in the Pakistani garrison city of Abbottabad, suspected of complicity in the mare's head of al-Qaida, or incompetence.
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