Hamid Karzai fails Taliban who gave up arms - Sunday Times

THE room the Taliban commander Mullah Mohammad now calls home, after bringing his 21 fighters to join the Afghan government’s reintegration programme earlier this month, is barely more comfortable than the mountain redoubt he left. - Karzai fails Taliban who gave up arms

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