Taliban Supporters Are Calling For The U.S. To Start Talks With It's Leaders

US Told It Must Hold Talks With Taliban's Mullah Omar -- The Telegraph

The US must broker a power-sharing agreement with the head of the Taliban, Mullah Omar, in order to establish peace in the region, the Governor of Pakistan's lawless border areas has said.

Owais Ghani, who governs the North West Frontier Province and its adjoining tribal areas, is the most prominent figure to date to publicly advocate holding talks with militant commanders leading the insurgency against coalition forces in Afghanistan.

His thinking reflects that of the conservative hardcore of Pakistan's military hardliners who are accused by Western intelligence operatives of supporting the Afghan Taliban as a "hedging policy" to maintain influence in Afghanistan.

"They have to talk to Mullah Omar, certainly – not maybe, and Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and the Haqqani group," Mr Ghani told The Daily Telegraph in an interview in Peshawar.

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My Comment: The Taliban and their Pakistani allies want the U.S. to leave .... their departure will mean (so they hope) that Mullah Omar and his allies can then move into the power and military vacuum that will develop.

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