AFGHANISTAN - Mar 19 - Helmand Governor Seeks Talks With Taliban.
From: APS Diplomat Recorder
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Date: 3/22/2008
The newly appointed governor of Helmand province has vowed to hold face-to-face meetings with Taliban fighters as part of a new strategy to quell the insurgency raging in Afghanistan's poppy belt. Gulab Mangal takes up what is perhaps one of the toughest jobs in Afghanistan next week when he will fly to a province that is both the country's most violent and its biggest opium producer. In an interview with the Financial Times, the well-regarded former governor of Laghman province said ...
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