'The indications for peace would be that Afghanistan will be ready to talk to those Taliban powers who belong to Afghanistan and who are not a part of the al-Qaeda, who are not part of any other terrorist network," he said..
Afghan president Hamid Karzai today rejected his Pakistani counterpart's view that Afghanistan war cannot be won, saying the campaign against Taliban and al-Qaeda is "absolutely winnable".
Karzai also said there are "individual contacts" with some elements of the Taliban, but there is no "formal process" of talks with the terror organisation.
"There are individual contacts with some Taliban elements. That's not yet a formal process," Karzai said. The road map for peace talks are clear, he added.
"The indications for peace would be that Afghanistan will be ready to talk to those Taliban powers who belong to Afghanistan and who are not part of al-Qaeda, who are not part of any other terrorist network," Karzai added.
Only those elements of Taliban will be engaged who accept the Afghan constitution and who are willing to return to a normal civilian life and who are not connected to any foreign body outside of Afghanistan, Karzai said.
The Afghan president tended to disagree with his Pakistani counterpart, Asif Ali Zardari, who recently said that war against terrorism is lost. Zardari's comments had evoked strong reaction from Kabul and Washington.
"I believe the campaign against terrorism is absolutely winnable. We have to win, but in order for us to do that, we must end the business as usual and we must begin to reexamine whether we are doing everything correctly, whether we are doing the right things, and whether we are having the support of the Afghan people or whether that support is declining.
And if it is declining, then there are reasons for it and we must correct those reasons," he was quoted as saying by ABC news.
"Those reasons are that we must provide protection to the Afghan people rather than causing civilian casualties. We must end corruption and corrupt practices in Afghanistan.
We must end parallel structures to the Afghan government. We must end the security firms who are spending billions of dollars, in the presence of whom Afghanistan would never have developed a police force," Karzai said.
Defending his decision to issue a decree to end private security companies in the country, he said these security companies are running a parallel security structure to the Afghan government.
These private security companies are not only causing corruption in this country, but also are looting and stealing from the Afghan people, causing a lot of harassment to civilians.
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