Taliban Peace Talks
High-ranking Taliban leaders have agreed that they will discuss terms of peace at the Persian Gulf state of Qatar. This occurring after the Taliban have repeatedly showed public denial of these peace talks to end its insurgency in Afghanistan. There really are no cons right now because the peace talks haven’t happened yet, but once they commence it should only go uphill from there. As of right now only the U.S. and Taliban representatives have discussed ending the 10 years’ war. Further debate has arisen, since before this the Taliban have viewed Hamid Karzai’s government as a puppet regime but in peace talks they must include Karzai’s views and notice the legitimate government of Afghanistan. One problem that could possibly threaten the negotiations is the Pakistani government which houses the Haqqani network that launched assaults on the Afghan capital of Kabul. The relations between Afghanistan and Pakistan is reportedly at an all-time low and furthermore the U.S.’s drawback to leave only 100,000 troops from Afghan borders has tried to arrange having a long-term plan to have a permanent presence over there to push Taliban into talks with Karzai representatives. Events have occurred where NATO forces have had to bomb Pakistani soldiers because of the Haqqani forces having been assaulting Afghan. Although now since the Taliban are becoming an ever decreasing force, since Bin Laden and other major advisors have fallen, they may have finally come to their senses. So hopefully in future months there will be peace among these governmental forces and radical groups.
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/t/taliban/index.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45854937
http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/03/world/asia/afghanistan-taliban-talks/index.html?hpt=wo_c1
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