KABUL says, hinting at a shift in policy toward the militant group.
Previously, the US told the Taliban to accept the Afghan constitution, renounce violence and break ties with foreign terrorist groups if they wanted to engage in discussions on joining Afghanistan’s mainstream.
Those preconditions have become more in-conditions that at the end of the talk we would like them to commit themselves in a way that we can be certain...
"That's significant," Zalmay Khalilzad said of the recent policy change . . .
