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'US asks Pakistan to mediate with Taliban'
Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:21:21 GMT

According to a former Pakistani lawmaker, Washington is
ready to spend a huge sum of money to talk with the Taliban
in Afghanistan.


As the situation in Afghanistan deteriorates, increasing
numbers of reports say that Washington has urged Islamabad
to mediate in direct talks with the Taliban.

According to the reports, the US has asked Pakistan to pave
the way for bringing Taliban elders to the table for one-on-
one talks.

"In her recent visit to Pakistan… the US Secretary of State,
Hillary Clinton, met top political and military leadership
of the country and 'talks with the Taliban' was on the top
of her agenda", a senior Pakistani official, who requested
that his name be withheld, told Press TV's Nasir Kazmi in
Islamabad on Friday.

The move comes days after Mike Mullen, Chairman of the US
Joint Chiefs of Staff, gave a gloomy assessment of the
security situation in Afghanistan, describing it as "serious
and deteriorating".

For the same purpose, US officials are also in contact with
certain pro-Taliban religio-politcal leaders including
Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-F (JUI-F) chief Moulana Fazullar Rehman
and Sami-ul-Haq , as well as various tribal leaders based in
Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Meanwhile, according to a former Pakistani lawmaker,
Washington is ready to spend large amounts of money to start
talks with the Taliban in Afghanistan.

Javed Ibrahim Paracha, a former member of Pakistan's
National Assembly said earlier in November that top US
diplomats contacted him in 2005 and offered him a huge sum
of money to broker the talks.

"US officials had offered me 500,000 dollars for mediating
at that meeting. I refused the offer and asked the US
officials to first gain permission from the government and
corps commanders," The Daily Times quoted Paracha, as
saying.

At the same time, the UK has demanded that the international
community -- the United States, in particular -- hold
reconciliation talks with the Taliban in Afghanistan to
establish peace in the country.

The US invaded Afghanistan more than eight years ago after
9/11 to allegedly arrest militant leaders and eradicate
militancy form the country.

This has been the deadliest year for foreign troops in
Afghanistan since the beginning of the war in 2001. At least
460 international soldiers have been killed there so far
this year.

MVZ/TG/DT

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