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''Senator Biden Was A Big Part Of It''

Biden was a longtime member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.

In 1997, he became the ranking minority member and chaired the committee in January 2001 and from June 2001 to 2003.

When Democrats retook control of the Senate after the 2006 elections, Biden again assumed the top spot on the committee.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_career_of_Joe_Biden#:~:text=Biden%20was%20a%20longtime%20member,top%20spot%20on%20the%20committee.

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Mike Pompeo met with Taliban Head of the Political Office Mullah Beradar on September 12, 2020.

Beradar is now set to become the new President of Afghanistan.

President Trump had Beradar released from a Pakistani prison in 2018.

Press Release: https://af.usembassy.gov/secretary-pompeos-meeting-with-the-taliban/

4:43 PM · Aug 15, 2021·Twitter Web App

https://twitter.com/travisakers/status/1427008000498225153

https://af.usembassy.gov/secretary-pompeos-meeting-with-the-taliban/

Secretary Pompeo’s Meeting with the Taliban

Home | News & Events | Secretary Pompeo’s Meeting with the Taliban

Office of the Spokesperson

The below is attributable to Principal Deputy Spokesperson Cale Brown:

Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo met today with Taliban Political Deputy and Head of the Political Office Mullah Beradar and members of the Taliban negotiating team in Doha, Qatar, on the historic occasion of the start of peace negotiations. Secretary Pompeo urged the Taliban to seize this opportunity to forge a political settlement and reach a comprehensive and permanent ceasefire. He welcomed Afghan leadership and ownership of the effort to end 40 years of war and ensure that Afghanistan is not a threat to the United States or its allies.

By U.S. Embassy in Kabul | 12 September, 2020 | Topics: News, Press Releases

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https://carnegieendowment.org/2010/03/24/beradar-pakistan-and-afghan-taliban-what-gives-pub-40427

Beradar, Pakistan, and the Afghan Taliban: What Gives?

ASHLEY J. TELLIS

MARCH 24, 2010

POLICY OUTLOOK

Recent arrests of high-profile Afghan Taliban leadership by Pakistan do not indicate a strategic change in Pakistan’s counterterrorism strategy. In reality, Pakistan wants to assume a leading role in negotiating and reconciling with the Afghan Taliban to ensure a friendlier neighbor after the United States withdraws, concludes a paper by Ashley J. Tellis.

Key conclusions:

Despite arrests of Mullah Beradar and other Taliban leaders (which were either inadvertent or self-serving), Pakistan’s overall strategy of protecting the Afghan Taliban leadership has not changed.

Pakistan is threatened by the 2011 drawdown of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, which it believes will leave behind an Afghan state with strong ties to its rival India.

A true change in Pakistan’s strategic calculations requires Islamabad to accept that the Taliban—and not India—is the greatest threat to success in Afghanistan.

The lack of U.S. leadership at the January London conference on Afghanistan allowed reconciliation with the Taliban to become a centerpiece of the endgame of international involvement.

Pakistan’s recent arrests of a few Taliban leaders is meant to exert control over the reconciliation process that Pakistan believes is imminent.

“The recent seizures of a few Taliban leaders by Pakistan isn’t much of a turning point in Islamabad’s traditional strategy after all,” writes Tellis.

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