Karzai confirms holding unofficial talks with Taliban

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11 October,2010 06:40 am

Afghan President Hamid Karzai confirmed holding unofficial talks with the Taliban and said that we have been talking to the Taliban in order to end this war in Afghanistan.Talking to CNN in an interview, President Karzai said that we have been talking to the Taliban as countryman to countryman, talk in that manner. Not as a regular official contact with the Taliban with a fixed address but rather unofficial personal contacts have been going on for quite some time, he added. The Afghan leader said there had been no official contacts with a known entity that reports to a body of Taliban and that comes back and reports to us regularly. That has not happened yet and we hope we can begin that as soon as possible, he added.