Overture to Taliban Jolts Afghan Minorities
While many are shocked at Hamid Karzai's overtures to the Taliban, he's just doing what Obama did a year ago.
FROM POST-GAZETTE.COM:
Overture to Taliban Jolts Afghan Minorities
Sunday, June 27, 2010
By DEXTER FILKINS, The New York Times
KABUL, Afghanistan -- The drive by President Hamid Karzai to strike a deal with Taliban leaders and their Pakistani backers is causing deep unease in Afghanistan's minority communities, who fought the Taliban the longest and suffered the most during their rule.
The leaders of the country's Tajik, Uzbek and Hazara communities, which make up close to half of Afghanistan's population, are vowing to resist -- and if necessary, fight -- any deal that involves bringing members of the Taliban insurgency into a power-sharing arrangement with the government.
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