Posts Tagged ‘peace talks’

Who will sit at the Afghan negotiating table?

Posted on: January 7th, 2012 by Ernie Regehr

The news that the Taliban will open a political office in Qatar is rightly being welcomed as a watershed moment – even though it is a belated one, coming at the 10-year mark of the post-9/11 war in Afghanistan.  The
pressing question now becomes, who will get a seat at the negotiating table
that will finally be set? It’s a question that should be of keen interest to
Canadians.

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