If they want peace and power in afghanistan and prosperity for the common man they will have to adopt civilized diplomatic posture and meet certain demands of the international community or Govt in order to get access to what is good for afghanistan.
AK-47 is not going to solve problems nor the Islamic version of crusade against infidels lets leave that christian/muslim jihad to end of times and move on live in the real world where people have many different problems that needs to be addressed from food, shelter, health, jobs, electricity and no jihad against infidels because most of it would be coming from the west incase because arabs will and never had contributed to any muslim cause for the past 2 millennium..
Do you intentionally push a man into starvation and then complain about his savagery when you know you are holding back his vital nutrition? This is an argument of dog chasing the tail! One of gem of Taliban secret is that most of the savagery and barbarity was instilled by the Pastun Talibans joining from Pakistan side which the actual Afghan Talibans were strongly opposed to as they considered it a national security threat to Afghanistan however, given Taliban dependence on Pakistan and ethnic makeup, there is little they could do to stop it.
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Thursday, December 4, 1997 Published at 19:27 GMT
World: West Asia
Taleban in Texas for talks on gas pipeline
image: [ The 1,300km pipeline will carry gas across Afghanistan's harsh terrain ]
The 1,300km pipeline will carry gas across Afghanistan's harsh terrain
A senior delegation from the Taleban movement in Afghanistan is in the United States for talks with an international energy company that wants to construct a gas pipeline from Turkmenistan across Afghanistan to Pakistan.
A spokesman for the company, Unocal, said the Taleban were expected to spend several days at the company's headquarters in Sugarland, Texas.
Unocal says it has agreements both with Turkmenistan to sell its gas and with Pakistan to buy it.
[ image: The Afghan economy has been devasted by 20 years of civil war]
The Afghan economy has been devasted by 20 years of civil war
But, despite the civil war in Afghanistan, Unocal has been in competition with an Argentinian firm, Bridas, to actually construct the pipeline.
Last month, the Argentinian firm, Bridas, announced that it was close to signing a two-billion dollar deal to build the pipeline, which would carry gas 1,300 kilometres from Turkmenistan to Pakistan, across Afghanistan.
In May, Taleban-controlled radio in Kabul said a visiting delegation from an Argentinian company had announced that pipeline construction would start "soon".
[ image: Kabul]
Kabul
The radio has reported several visits to Kabul by Unocal and Bridas company officials over the past few months.
A BBC regional correspondent says the proposal to build a pipeline across Afghanistan is part of an international scramble to profit from developing the rich energy resources of the Caspian Sea.
With the various Afghan factions still at war, the project has looked from the outside distinctly unpromising.
Last month the Taleban Minister of Information and Culture, Amir Khan Muttaqi, said the Taleban had held talks with both American and Argentine-led consortia over transit rights but that no final agreement had yet been reached. He said an official team from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Turkmenistan should meet to ensure each country benefited from any deal.
However, Unocal clearly believes it is still in with a chance - to the extent that it has already begun training potential staff.
It has commissioned the University of Nebraska to teach Afghan men the technical skills needed for pipeline construction. Nearly 140 people were enrolled last month in Kandahar and Unocal also plans to hold training courses for women in administrative skills.
[ image: Women face working restrictions under Taleban rule]
Women face working restrictions under Taleban rule
Although the Taleban authorities only allow women to work in the health sector, organisers of the training say they haven't so far raised any objections.
The BBC regional correspondent says the Afghan economy has been devastated by 20 years of civil war. A deal to go ahead with the pipeline project could give it a desperately-needed boost.
But peace must be established first -- and that for the moment still seems a distant prospect.
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BBC News | West Asia | Taleban in Texas for talks on gas pipeline
There is every reason to believe 9/11 as an inside job to clean up America's image and its links with rouge regimes it helped create and install. In the coming years, the history of war on terror will be written as an accomplishment of betrayal and deception.
The Talibans were not some anti-america savage cave men..among their ranks were highly educated and qualified people with sense of nation building, international trade, economy etc etc however with situation growing worse day by day and many of the sane headed leaving the movement, Afghanistan became a fertile ground for Taliban rival Alquaida. I say rival because part of the terms for refugee granted to OBL enforced no political or militant activity.
