Karzai holds peace talks with insurgent faction

Though everyone that has had talks with the Taliban and any of their sub Groups like Hezb-i-islami , can tell you , they always Lie and break their deals , Hamid Karzai Still has talks with them !

And how do you explain to all the Afghani People that they need to accept these fellow countrymen back into society , who have been killing their friends , neighbors and Family for the past 7 Years ?


(Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai has met a senior delegation from the insurgent group Hezb-i-Islami in Kabul, Karzai's office said Monday, an unprecedented step toward peace that may signal divisions within the insurgency.

The meeting with a militant faction that rivals the Taliban amounts to Karzai's first confirmed direct talks with one of the three main groups fighting his government and Western troops.

Although the talks appeared to be preliminary, the public acknowledgment of the meeting was itself a significant milestone after many months of furtive efforts to reach out.

An eventual peace deal could alter the balance of power on the ground in a decisive year, when Karzai is seeking to woo fighters off the battlefield and Washington mounts a "surge" of extra combat troops before planning to start a pullout in 2011.

Karzai's spokesman, Waheed Omer, confirmed the delegates had met the president and presented a peace plan.

Reuters tracked down the delegates -- including Ghairat Baheer, son-in-law of the group's fugitive leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar -- at a Kabul hotel, where they were meeting Afghan parliamentarians. They declined to be interviewed.

"As you can see we are here, but we cannot speak to the press," said Qareeb Rahman Saeed, a senior Hezb-i-Islami official now based in Europe. The delegation's leader, former Prime Minister Qutbuddin Helal, was also present.