Karzai Invites Taliban Members to Vote
From Times Wire Reports
Afghan President Hamid Karzai made a surprise overture to the Taliban, inviting the insurgents to vote in September elections and saying his government was trying to negotiate peace.
A top Taliban commander, Mullah Dadullah, swiftly rejected Karzai’s invitation and repeated a threat to disrupt the country’s first presidential and parliamentary polls.
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