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Taliban reaching out to West

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[Pakistan Daily Times] - According to Ahmed Rashid, a Pakistani author and analyst, there have been “numerous public signals” from the Taliban in the past three months that suggest willingness to get back round the negotiating table. Last month a veteran Taliban commander gave

zeit.de: Manager-Appell: Konzernchefs fordern Umsetzung von UN-Korruptions ...

[ZEIT ONLINE] - So beschreibt es Ahmed Rashid in seinem Buch "Taliban - Afghanistans Gotteskrieger und der Dschihad" In Russland muss man auch immer damit rechnen, dass man dem Beamten auch mal "einen Gefallen tun muss" um Genehmigungen o.Ä. zu erhalten.

Exclusive: US sweetens Taliban prisoner proposal in bid to revive peace talks

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[Reuters] - "The Taliban doesn't want a vacuum in Afghanistan or a civil war with the North they know they can't win," said Ahmed Rashid, a prominent Pakistani author and expert on the Taliban, referring to powerful northern warlords who battled the Taliban in the

Trudy Rubin: Now is the best time to talk to Taliban

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[Post-Bulletin] - That prospect also alarms some Taliban leaders, says Pakistani author Ahmed Rashid, a leading expert on the Taliban movement. “The Taliban know they can't win an ethnic civil war,” says Rashid, especially since Afghanistan's neighbors will back
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