{"id":731887,"date":"2010-05-24T09:28:30","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T13:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=85516"},"modified":"2010-05-24T09:28:30","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T13:28:30","slug":"an-exploratory-karzai-taliban-peace-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/731887","title":{"rendered":"An Exploratory Karzai-Taliban Peace Summit?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks to al-Jazeera, footage has emerged of what may be a nascent or exploratory peace negotiation between the Afghan government, the Taliban and a Taliban affiliate and longtime guerilla leader, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar.<\/p>\n

For months, there have been occasional reports of representatives from the parties to the conflict — one stretching back nine, 15 or 30 years, depending on how continuous you wish to characterize the belligerents as fighting for similar causes — meeting in the Maldives<\/a>, a placid Indian Ocean island nation neutral in the fight. But now, al-Jazeera cameras have captured images of a man described as an “Afghan governor” and several parliamentarians and foreign-ministry representatives meeting with men described as Taliban and Hekmatyar deputies:<\/span><\/p>\n

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The network reports that the talks are informal. And they come in advance of President Hamid Karzai’s “consultative peace jirga<\/a>” intended to define the contours of an olive branch to the Taliban — a summit that apparently will be delayed by a week<\/a>. So even if the Maldives talks are informal, they at least represent a mechanism through which the peace jirga’s terms might be delivered to the insurgents, and through which a response might emerge.<\/p>\n

(Via Joshua Foust’s Twitter feed<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thanks to al-Jazeera, footage has emerged of what may be a nascent or exploratory peace negotiation between the Afghan government, the Taliban and a Taliban affiliate and longtime guerilla leader, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. For months, there have been occasional reports of representatives from the parties to the conflict — one stretching back nine, 15 or 30 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2762,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-731887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-34oD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2762"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=731887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}