Looking for deal with Taliban, Karzai meets with cleric
Posted: February 19, 2012 at 5:58 a.m.
The Afghan president met Saturday with a Pakistani cleric linked to Taliban insurgents, a meeting that marked the first public contact between an Afghan official and members of the Afghan Taliban’s support network in Pakistan in Afghanistan’s bid to bring the militant movement to the negotiating table.
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