The Taliban denied Wednesday that the movement is planning direct talks with the Afghan government to end the 10-year-old war, while a leaked NATO report suggested the insurgents are confident they will regain power after international troops leave.
While both developments were setbacks to Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s efforts to broker peace, his government got a boost from Pakistan’s top diplomat who declared her nation’s support for an Afghan-led reconciliation process.
“Our only prerequisite to be supportive of an initiative is that it should be Afghan-led. It should be Afghan-owned. It should be Afghan-driven and Afghan-backed,” Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar said at the Afghan Foreign Ministry.
While she didn’t mention the
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