Karzai says talks with Taliban useless

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Karzai says talks with Taliban useless

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Afghan President says trying to talk peace with insurgents is futile.

01 October,2011 05:32 pm

Hamid Karzai said that neighboring Pakistan, not the Taliban, needs to be the other party in the peace talks.The presidents remarks came on a video recording that his office released on Saturday.Karzai has been pushing for years to reconcile with the Taliban.He says that effort is no longer viable since a suicide bomber claiming to be a peace emissary from the Taliban killed former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani at his home on Sept. 20. Rabbani was leading Karzais effort to broker peace with the Taliban.Karzai says the only way forward is for Afghanistan to negotiate with Pakistan.