Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Accept defeat by Taliban, Pakistan tells NATO

Telegraph reported Senior Pakistani officials are urging Nato countries to accept the Taliban and work towards a new coalition government in Kabul that might exclude the Afghan president Hamid Karzai.

I guess if you can't win on the battlefield, you try to persuade your opponents to quit.
Pakistan's foreign minister, Khurshid Kasuri, has said in private briefings to foreign ministers of some Nato member states that the Taliban are winning the war in Afghanistan
And they want to be free to resume oppressing women and harboring terrorists.
and Nato is bound to fail. He has advised against sending more troops. Western ministers have been stunned. "Kasuri is basically asking Nato to surrender and to negotiate with the Taliban," said one Western official who met the minister recently.
Does he also want them to convert to Islam?

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