Can Afghanistan gain peace if Taliban given a place in Government?

# As insurgency-related violence continues to climb in Afghanistan, Karzai comes up with an overture asking Taliban for a role in government in return for an end to fighting.

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# France's top-selling spy writer has some trenchant advice for Western forces fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan: 'get out while you can.'

# Mr. Karzai has predicted that pulling back the international troops would plunge his country into the darkest days Afghanistan has witnessed since the civil wars of the early 1990s, in which tens of thousands of people died.