It's time to talk to the Taliban

Nov 6th, 2009 - guardian.co.uk

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There is much evidence that the Taliban are less a fundamentalist religious group dedicated to sponsoring al-Qaida in international jihad and more an amalgam of groups seeking to fight foreign occupation and reassert the traditional dominance of the Pashtun group, which has largely been ceded to Tajiks and others, despite Karzai himself being a Pashtun (Brown will not walk away from fight but public support falters, November 6).

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