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Talking to the Taliban

2008; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 32; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/09700160802309076

1754-0054

Vishal Chandra,

Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1 Syed Saleem Shahzad, ‘Taliban's New Commander Ready for a Fight’, Asia Times Online, March 20, 2006, at http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/HE20Df02.html (Accessed August 16, 2007). Also see, ‘Jalal-ud Din Haqqani’, at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/taliban/militants/haqqani.html (Accessed October 5, 2006). 2 ‘Kabul Hints at Amnesty for Omar, Hekmatyar’, Dawn, May 9, 2005, at http://www.dawn.com/2005/05/10/top7.htm (Accessed July 6, 2006). 3 ‘Afghanistan Open to Dialogue with Militants’, Der Spiegel, March 6, 2007, at http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,469876,00.html (Accessed March 7, 2007). 4 ‘Afghan Bill Calls for Talks with Taliban’, The New York Times, May 9, 2007, at http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Afghan-Taliban-Talks.html (Accessed May 9, 2007). 5 ‘Afghan Papers See Taleban as Possible Talks Partner’, Sabawoon Online, February 16, 2007, at http://www.sabawoon.com/news/miniheadlines.asp?dismode=article&artid=35569 (Accessed March 3, 2007). 6 Anand Gopal, ‘Afghan Opposition Courts Taliban’, The Christian Science Monitor, April 3, 2008, at http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0403/p06s01-woap.html (Accessed April 9, 2008). 7 Ibid. The UNF claims the support of 40 per cent of members of the Afghan parliament. Among the prominent members of the UNF are Afghan Vice President Zia Masud (brother of slain Tajik leader Ahmed Shah Masud); former Defence Minister Mohammad Qasim Fahim; Yonus Qanuni, speaker of the lower house of the Afghan parliament and Tajik leader; Ismael Khan, water and energy minister and former ‘Amir’ of Herat; Uzbek commander Abdul Rashid Dostum; Syed Mohammad Gulabzoi, former Afghan interior minister during the communist government and parliamentarian; and Zahir Mostafa, a grandson of former Afghan King Zahir Shah and head of the environment department in the Afghan government. 8 AUNF for Recognition of Taliban as a Party, May 2, 2008, at http://www.thefrontierpost.com/News.aspx?ncat=an&nid=315 (Accessed May 5, 2008). 9 ‘Ex-Prince Wants Taliban Brought into Afghan Government’, The New York Times, May 7, 2008, at http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/world/international-afghan-crisis.html (Accessed May 8, 2008). 10 ‘Senior British Diplomat: Pakistan Not a “Source of Terrorism”’, International Herald Tribune, September 8, 2006, at http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/09/08/asia/AS_GEN_Pakistan_Britain.php (Accessed September 9, 2006). 11 Thomas Harding and Tom Coghlan, ‘Britain in Secret Talks with the Taliban’, The Daily Telegraph, December 27, 2007, at http://www.telegraph.co.uk (Accessed January 2, 2008). 12 Henry McDonald, ‘We Can Persuade Taliban to be Peaceful – Expelled EU Man’, Guardian, February 16, 2008, at http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/feb/16/afghanistan.terrorism (Accessed March 11, 2008). 13 Ron Synovitz, ‘Afghanistan: A First Step Toward “Turning” Moderate Taliban?’, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, January 9, 2008, at http://www.rferl.org (Accessed January 14, 2008). 14 ‘New Helmand Governor Confirms Desire for Talks with Taliban’, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, March 1, 2008, at http://www.rferl.org (Accessed April 1, 2008). 15 ‘Britain Defence Sec Endorses Talks with Taliban’, The New York Times, May 28, 2008, at http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/world/international-britain-afghan-browne. html (Accessed May 28, 2008). 16 Graeme Smith, ‘Canada Reaches Out to Taliban’, The Globe and Mail, May 1, 2008, at http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080501.AFGHAN01/TPStory/TPInternational/Asia/(Accessed May 1, 2008).