Karzai seeks anexception
Karzai seeks anexception Tag cloud: Afghanistan , Politics , Taliban , Commentary , World Boris Pavlishchev 14.07.2010, 17:33 The President of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai wants the UN to lift restrictions on some moderate members of Taliban so as to permit the holding of peace talks with them. The US special envoy to Afghanistan, Richard Holbrooke is reportedly holding talks with officials of the UN mission in Kabul on the issue. Exonerating some Taliban members may occur before the international conference on a possible settlement in Afghanistan, slated for July 20th. The authorities in Kabul are praying for that. In 1999, the UN imposed sanctions against the then ruling Taliban, for bluntly refusing to hand over Osama bin Laden, regarded by the US as terrorist number one, and in 2001, more than 100 names of members of Taliban and Al-Qaeda were added to the black list which now contains 137 names. Those on the list are banned...