KABUL, Feb 10: The Taliban remain a united force and President Hamid Karzai must start wide-ranging talks to save Afghanistan from more bloodshed, former Taliban foreign minister Wakil Ahmad Muttawakil said on Saturday.

“I think that the Taliban to a large extent is the only group that has remained united before and after its fall,” he said.

“If we look back to past years, evidence shows that they have expanded and increased their operations and there is the possibility of that once again,” he said in an interview in Kabul.

—Reuters

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