US wants Pakistan to woo 'good' Taliban

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.dawn.com/2004/10/29/top6.htm

WASHINGTON, Oct 28: Pakistan will have an important role to play in 'separating the good Taliban from the bad ones' and bringing them to the Afghan government, United States Ambassador to Kabul Zalmay Khalilzad said on Wednesday.

Speaking at a meeting at the Johns Hopkins University, Mr Khalilzad said reconciliation with the 'good' Taliban would be "the first agenda item in the first 180 days" of the new administration in Kabul.

The comments, coming on the day an international commission in Kabul announced President Hamid Karzai's victory in the presidential election, confirm media speculations that both Afghan and US administrations are trying to woo those Taliban supporters who are willing to disown their past.

They also confirm reports that Pakistan is cooperating with the Afghan and US governments in bringing the so-called good Taliban to Kabul's fold.

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[maddezmom]

1. good Taliban???...flippity-floppity

[soothsayer]

2. Did the "good" ones knock down the Bamiyan Buddhas? I guess the

"good" ones are the ones who came to TX to talk oil/pipeline stuff with the oil barons.

[lil-petunia]

3. you mean those who met with Gov. Bush in Texas in 1998?

Those guys who shook Bush's hand as they inked deals with halliburton?

[HysteryDiagnosis]

4. Maybe they mean the "good northern alliance" not quite as bad

as the "good Kabul Taliban". These people have been playing peoples in other nations one against the other since the beginning of time. Shame on them.... what shall be their rewards.....