28/01/2010
Writer: AFP News agency
Bangkok Post
Taliban fighters display their weapons during a patrol in Ghazni province on January 23. Afghanistan will seek to drum up support for its plan to buy off Taliban militants at a meeting Thursday with its allies, who are expected to press Kabul to move more quickly to take over security.
Afghanistan will seek to drum up support for its plan to buy off Taliban militants at a meeting Thursday with its allies, who are expected to press Kabul to move more quickly to take over security.
President Hamid Karzai will address about 70 countries and organisations that give vital support to his government in talks that some partners have said will be crucial but the Taliban has dismissed as a waste of time.
The London meeting comes amid disquiet about the situation in Afghanistan more than eight years into a gruelling fight against the Taliban that has cost thousands of lives and is losing public support in several nations.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the conference was vital to determining the success or failure of the mission in Afghanistan.
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In London we are talking about nothing less than setting the future course, a course that I am convinced will determine the success or failure of our mission," Merkel said Wednesday.
She has announced 500 more German troops for Afghanistan, a doubling of development aid and
plans to offer 50 million euros (70 million dollars) over five years to a new fund to draw militants back into mainstream society.
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