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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (47920)	3/2/2005 3:16:00 AM
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The former Taliban foreign minister is playing a key role in efforts to persuade members of the ousted regime to join amnesty talks with the Afghan government, officials said on Tuesday. Wakeel Ahmed Mutawakel, who was detained after the militia was toppled by US-led forces in late 2001, is said to be a leading moderate and would therefore be an ideal go-between for Kabul. "Recently members of the former Taliban regime who have come (for talks with the government) are of course in consultation with him," President Hamid Karzai’s spokesman Jawed Ludin told a weekly press conference. Mutawakel, in his early 30s, was the highest-ranking Taliban figure in US custody after his surrender just over three years ago. "I can say that he is in Kabul. He is in Kabul since long ago, he is under supervision," Ludin said.