A cowded street is pictured in Mazar-i-Sharif, the capital of Balkh province, north of Kabul. An expanded US military involvement awaits a new US president in Afghanistan where the unfinished business of September 11 has flared over the past three years into a major insurgency.(AFP/DDP/File/Michael Kappeler)
Afghanistan Negotiations 'Very Difficult': British PM
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DOHA (AFP) – British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said it would be "very difficult" for Afghanistan to negotiate directly with the Taliban while troops were still being killed there.
"I think the government (of President Hamid Karzai) wants to reach out and make for a more inclusive society," Brown told Al-Jazeera television, when asked about the possibility of negotiations.
"But I think at the same time when British and other troops are being murdered by Taliban forces... in guerilla warfare, I think it's very difficult indeed.
"I would hope that people will come to realise that Afghanistan's future lies in a political process and not a guerilla warfare."
Brown was speaking during a four-day tour of Gulf states which has so far taken in Saudi Arabia, where he met King Abdullah, and Qatar, where he is meeting the prime minister and emir.
Britain has around 8,000 troops in Afghanistan and 121 personnel have died while serving there since 2001.
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"But I think at the same time when British and other troops are being murdered by Taliban forces... in guerilla warfare, I think it's very difficult indeed.
"I would hope that people will come to realise that Afghanistan's future lies in a political process and not a guerilla warfare."
Brown was speaking during a four-day tour of Gulf states which has so far taken in Saudi Arabia, where he met King Abdullah, and Qatar, where he is meeting the prime minister and emir.
Britain has around 8,000 troops in Afghanistan and 121 personnel have died while serving there since 2001.
Read more ....
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