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Rassoul and the chairman of Afghanistan's
High Peace Council Salahuddin Rabbani.
Since then, he has met with several Qatari
officials, including the emir Sheikh Hamad
bin Khalifa Al Thani.
Karzai has long insisted that any peace
process with the Taliban be an Afghan-led
one, and previously, he was opposed to
the militant group having a meeting place
outside Afghanistan.
The United Nations this week welcomed
President Karzai's planned trip to Qatar
and issued another call for the Taliban to
come to the negotiating table.
Karzai has stressed that he would only
start talks with the Taliban if they broke all
links with al-Qaida and gave up violence.
But the Taliban has repeatedly refused to
talk with the Karzai administration, calling
it a "puppet regime" of the U.S.-led
coalition.
Speaking to the French news agency, a
Taliban spokesman said the group's
opening of any office in Qatar would not
be related to the Afghan president, but
rather, it would be a matter between the
Taliban and the Qatari government. The
spokesman also said that any Taliban
representatives already in Qatar would
not see or talk to Karzai.
The international coalition fighting in
Afghanistan is in the middle of handing
security control of the country to the
Afghan national forces as nearly all
coalition combat troops mobilize to leave
the country by the end of next year.
Some information for this report was
provided by AP and AFP.
http://www.aopnews.com/today.html
Afghan forces uncovered major bomb
plot on water dam
Press TV
March 31, 2013
Afghan officials say its security forces have
foiled a major explosion plot on a water
dam located in the western province of
Herat.
Provincial governor spokesman,
Mohiuddin Noori said on Sunday that
Afghan intelligence - the National
Directorate of Security - along with the
Afghan National Army have seized nearly
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