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To: DeplorableIrredeemableRedneck who wrote (3435)	11/29/2006 5:46:45 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 20106

Pakistan Urges NATO To Accept Taliban Rule in Afghanistan The New York Sun ^ \| November 29, 2006 \| Ahmed Rashid nysun.com ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN — Senior Pakistani officials are urging NATO countries to accept the Taliban and work toward a new coalition government in Kabul that might exclude President Karzai of Afghanistan. Pakistan's foreign minister, Khurshid Kasuri, has said in private briefings to foreign ministers of some NATO member states that the Taliban are winning the war in Afghanistan and that NATO is bound to fail. He has advised against sending more troops. Western ministers have been stunned. " Kasuri is basically asking NATO to surrender and to negotiate with the Taliban," one Western official who met the minister recently said. The remarks were made on the eve of NATO's critical summit in Latvia. The British general and NATO's force commander in Afghanistan, Lieutenant General David Richards, and its chief diplomat there, the Dutch ambassador Daan Everts, have spent five days in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, urging the Pakistani military to do more to reign in the Taliban. But they have received mixed messages. Mr. Karzai has long insisted that the Taliban sanctuaries and logistics bases are in Pakistan while the Supreme Commander of NATO, General James Jones, told the U.S. Congress in September that the Taliban leadership is headquartered in the Pakistani city of Quetta. The governor of the volatile Northwest Frontier Province, Lieutenant General Ali Mohammed Jan Orakzai, has stated publicly that America, Britain, and NATO have already failed in Afghanistan. (Excerpt) Read more at nysun.com ....