US in talks with the Taliban
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Outgoing US Defence Secretary Robert Gates confirmed yesterday the US had been holding preliminary talks with Taliban leaders to bring an end to the war in Afghanistan. US troops are scheduled to withdraw by 2014, and the hope is a political solution can be reached before then. But some commentators are worried the rights of afghan women will be forgotten in the haste to make a peace deal and get the troops out.
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