Fwd: News Alert: High-Level Talks Aim for an End to the Afghan War

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> Breaking News Alert
> The New York Times
> Tue, October 19, 2010
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> High-Level Talks Aim for an End to the Afghan War
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> Talks to end the war in Afghanistan involve extensive,
> face-to-face discussions with Taliban commanders from the
> highest levels of the group's leadership, who are secretly
> leaving their sanctuaries in Pakistan with the help of NATO
> troops, officials here say.
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> The discussions, some of which have taken place in Kabul, are
> unfolding between the inner circle of President Hamid Karzai
> and members of the Quetta shura, the leadership group that
> oversees the Taliban war effort inside Afghanistan. Afghan
> leaders have also held discussions with leaders of the
> Haqqani network, considered to be one of the most hard-line
> guerrilla factions fighting here; and members of the Peshawar
> shura, whose fighters are based in eastern Afghanistan.
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> Read More:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/20/world/asia/20afghan.html?emc=na
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