Taliban, US reportedly set to hold peace talks

[unhappycamper]

http://www.dw.de/taliban-us-reportedly-set-to-hold-peace-talks/a-18268336

There are reports that the Taliban Islamist militant group is set to hold talks with US officials on ending the 13-year conflict in Afghanistan. A previous attempt to open dialogue ended in failure.

Taliban, US reportedly set to hold peace talks
19.02.2015

News agencies on Thursday cited unnamed sources from the Afghan Taliban, who said that preliminary talks between its representatives and US officials could be held as soon as later the same day.

"The first session will take place today in Qatar and then there would be another session on Friday. Let us see what happens as talks before did not yield any results," the Reuters news agency quoted a senior member of the Afghan Taliban as saying. AFP also cited an unnamed official, who said the first meeting would be held later on Thursday.

Reuters also quoted an unnamed senior military official from neighboring Pakistan who said that while the Taliban had expressed a willingness to hold talks nobody was under any illusion that the negotiations would be easy.

"But there are very clear signals ... and we have communicated it to the Afghans. Now many things are with the Afghans and they are serious," the official said.

[femmocrat]

1. Very interesting. K & R

Diplomacy is alway better than war, but I don't hold much hope for a "peace" treaty.