Taliban, US negotiators meet in Qatar

2012-01-29 22:16:39

Taliban negotiators have begun holding preliminary talks with US officials in Qatar on plans for peace negotiations aimed at ending the decade-long war in Afghanistan, a former Taliban official said Sunday. "The actual peace talks have not yet begun -- they are in the process of trust-building and obviously this will take some time," Mawlavi Qalamuddin told AFP. Qalamuddin, who once led the Taliban's feared religious police when the hardline Islamists were in power, is now a member of the High ... Full Article at Rnw »