Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said he asked the king of Saudi Arabia to help negotiate peace talks with the Taliban militia. Karzai said that the discussions have not yet started though.
The Afghan leader said his envoys had made repeated trips to the Gulf kingdom and to neighbouring Pakistan to facilitate the negotiations. Karzai's comments come two days after Britain's Observer newspaper reported the Taliban were in secret Oil falls ahead of Opec meeting ...
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Last gasp for Germany's bars ... negotiations brokered by Saudi King Abdullah to end the conflict in Afghanistan. The Taliban were overthrown by a US-led coalition after the 2001 terror attacks on the United States.
(Deutsche Welle)
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