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Pakistan gov’t starts talks with Taliban

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Hoping to end a bloody 7-year insurgency, negotiators for Pakistan’s government and Taliban met on Thursday to chart a “roadmap” for future peace talks, which observers from within and outside Islamabad are skeptical about. Gun and bomb attacks launched since 2007 by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), an umbrella grouping of numerous militant factions, have killed thousands of people. Stability in nuclear-armed Pakistan is seen as important to neighboring Afghanistan, where United States-led NATO troops are pulling out after more than a decade of war.

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