The Hill News

Britain’s Guardian newspaper reveals today that the U.S. government has been involved in indirect talks with the Pakistan-based Haqqani clan allied with al Qaeda.

It goes further than yesterday’s Washington Post, which reported that the Afghan government of President Hamid Karzai had held top-level contacts with the Quetta Shura, the Taliban leadership headed by Mullah Omar in the Pakistani city of Quetta. But the Post said that the contacts did not include reaching out to the Haqqani network, whose members have been pounded by the escalated drone attacks in the border region of North Waziristan.

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