"Senior US officials have long said they didn’t expect the Taliban to talk peace as long as the militants believed they were winning, and at least some administration officials had been cool to peace feelers put forth by Karzai.
That changed publicly on Thursday, when US Secretary Robert Gates and US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton backed exploratory talks between the Afghan government and the militants."
Dawn.com story: Nato has facilitated Taliban movement: Petraeus
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