Hamid Karzai held secret talks with Mullah Baradar in Afghanistan

By Dean Nelson in Delhi and Ben Farmer in Kabul 638PM GMT sixteen March 2010

Afghan President Hamid Karzai is pronounced to have hold tip talks with the Taliban Photo EPA

The Afghan boss was mad about the physical condition of Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar in Karachi last month as the men had been negotiating, according to his aides.

Diplomats have claimed at slightest one of Mr Karzai"s brothers hold talks with the Taliban"s series dual at a in isolation chateau nearby Kandahar dual months ago.

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The assembly at a chateau in Spin Boldak is believed to have enclosed contention on the remunerative drug and heroin traffic in southern Afghanistan. Sources told The Dailythat the discussions additionally lonesome the positions of Mullah Baradar and Mr Karzai in the Taliban and government.

A orator for the Afghan boss denied there had been approach talks in in in in between the supervision and Mullah Baradar, but would not criticism on surreptitious talks. The Karzai brothers were taken for comment.

The explain came as Mr Karzai rebuilt to make known a grand genealogical assent council, or jirga in the initial week of May that he claims will flog begin a settlement expostulate with Afghanistan"s insurgents.

Abdul Ali Shamsi, security confidant to the administrator of Helmand province, pronounced "The supervision has been negotiating with Mullah Baradar, who took an suggest to the Taliban [ruling council]."

Another assistance pronounced the arrest, finished with assistance from US comprehension officers, had finished Mr Karzai "very angry".

The discussions in in in in between the dual parties, who are members the Popalzai tribe, hinged on commercial operation interests rather than a domestic assent deal, one researcher in Kabul said.

Ahmad Wali Karzai, head of Kandahar"s provincial council, has strongly denied steady allegations he is concerned in the Afghan drug trade.

The researcher pronounced "Baradar controls a big interest in the drug traffic in Kandahar. It"s a assent understanding in a sense, shortening the dispute in in in in between the supervision and the Taliban, according to in isolation interests."

Mullah Baradar"s detain annoyed suspicions he was seized at the insistence of Pakistan comprehension officers against to a deal.

It has additionally been purported he was offering up to the authorities by associate members of the statute Quetta shura hurt by his eagerness to negotiate.

Matt Waldman, a associate at the Carr Centre for Human Rights Policy in Harvard, pronounced "It seems these arrests were dictated to safeguard elements inside Pakistan have stability change or carry out over any talks." Reconciliation with Taliban leaders and plans to awaken afar their feet soldiers were piece of singular hour-long phone contention in in in in between Mr Karzai and Barack Obama on Monday evening.

Wahid Omar, orator for Mr Karzai, pronounced the assent jirga had been scheduled for May 1 or 2.

One Western shrewd person pronounced he remained distrustful of the chances of success.

He pronounced "The 3 day jirga will be a PR attempt and will not have any one from the Taliban. Peace talks are not finished in this way."