Pakistan accused of derailing UN talks with Taliban

By Ben Farmer, in Kabul 845AM GMT nineteen March 2010

Last month Mr Eide wrote in the Dailythat assent in Afghanistan indispensable talks with Mullah Omar?s Taliban leadership. A intrigue to break the rebellion by coaxing afar feet soldiers with offers of jobs and freedom was deficient he wrote. Photo AP

Kai Eide has certified for the initial time that there had been face-to-face talks with mutinous leaders in Dubai and elsewhere.

But he blamed Pakistan for crude the discourse by seizing a fibre of commanders last month.

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The Norwegian shrewd person pronounced the UN had oral with envoys from Mullah Mohammad Omar, the head of the Talibans Quetta Shura, or statute council, formed in Pakistan.

London is energetically pulling for a domestic allotment to the eight-year-long rebellion that has claimed some-more than 1,000 US soldiers and 275 British deaths, whilst Hamid Karzai is to hold a assent legislature in May.

The parties had hold rough "talks about talks" Mr Eide said, but the channels had sealed utterly after the arrests in Pakistan.

Elements in Pakistans comprehension use have sponsored and neat the Afghan Taliban transformation for fifteen years and regularly refused Western pleas to aim the high command.

The detain of comparison Taliban leaders, together with Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, inside Pakistan in Feb has stirred conjecture Islamabad was unfortunate with a assent understanding or wished to strive change in talks.

Mr Eide pronounced "The outcome of [the arrests], in total, certainly, was disastrous on the possibilities to go on the domestic routine that we saw as so required at that sold juncture."

"The Pakistanis did not fool around the purpose that they should have played.... They contingency have well known who they were, what kind of purpose they were playing, and you see the outcome today," he told the BBC.

Last month Mr Eide wrote in the Dailythat assent in Afghanistan indispensable talks with Mullah Omars Taliban leadership. A intrigue to break the rebellion by coaxing afar feet soldiers with offers of jobs and freedom was deficient he wrote.

Claims the Mr Eide had met Taliban in Dubai emerged in January, but he refused to criticism on them.

He pronounced on Thursday the Taliban his UN envoys had met had been certified to verbalise by Mullah Omar himself.

"I find it inconceivable that such hit would take place but his believe and additionally but his acceptance," he said.

The hit began last open and one after another after a peace for last years presidential elections.

"It one after another to collect up until a sure impulse a couple of weeks ago," he said.

Hamid Karzais brothers were additionally in talks with Mullah Baradar, the Taliban troops commander, when he was arrested in Karachi, it has been claimed.

The detain hurt Mr Karzai, but Pakistans authorities have denied the arrests were an try to spoil the talks.

Mr Eide pronounced there were multiform alternative channels for traffic with the Taliban, together with links with comparison members of the Karzai government.

However he warned it would right away take weeks or months to settle certainty and move forward.

A Western shrewd person pronounced successful talks hinged on await from Pakistan.

He pronounced "Rule No1 - but don"t discuss it the Afghans - is that the Pakistanis contingency not feel in jeopardy by the process."