Taliban infighting over US talks breaks down into terror campaign

He was seized last month and held in Pakistan over claims that he had been
paid by the United Nations political mission in Afghanistan, to enter talks
with the Afghan government.

Last week a close relative of Mullah Ismail told The Daily Telegraph he
believed he was still alive and too popular to be killed. He had been “fiercely
questioned” and possibly tortured, he said, but “they cannot kill
him, he is too respected and influential.”

Senior analysts said his arrest and possible killing were part of a brutal
move to stop unauthorized talks between local commanders and the Afghan
government.

The majority of Taliban fighters support a negotiated settlement to the
conflict, he said but the West had failed to make sufficient concessions to
bolster its moderates.

“The majority of the Taliban want a broad-based government for all
Afghan people and an Islamic system like other Islamic countries,” he
said.

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