Karzai to meet with Taliban

The Qatari satellite channel Al-Jazaara is reporting that Afghan President Hamid Karzai will begin holding talks with members of the ousted Taliban government.

“A delegation of Taliban, led by former Health Minister Mullah Abbas, secretly arrived in the Afghan capital for the expected talks, the first since the Taliban regime crumbled one year and a half ago,” the Qatar-based channel’s correspondent told his channel.

“The step is meant to improve relations between the two sides and as part of the Afghan government’s efforts to woo some Taliban members,” he said.

The Afghan leader hailed some Taliban members in a meeting with Afghan scholars, saying the movement did a great service to the war-torn country and that it has some “good” elements.

...the talks are widely expected to be okayed by Washington which had earlier failed to approach members of Taliban.

Didn't the US allegedly go to war to get rid of the Taliban?