BOSTON – Good to be home. I just got back from the trip to Afghanistan and Pakistan late last night. And on the plane ride home I wrote the piece that leads GlobalPost right now. Talking with the Taliban is about ongoing negotiations with moderate elements of the Taliban leadership who have been holding third-party talks with active Taliban insurgents and the Afghan and US government. The talks are an important opening to the way forward in Afghanistan.
To write the piece, I was going through the notes of an extraordinary journey through Islamabad and Peshawar and then Kabul. It came at a pivotal time in the history of Afghanistan, a time when the US is both stepping up its military presence and at the same time reaching out to the moderate elements of the Taliban. Eventually, all of the reporting I did on this trip will be crafted into a multimedia project for GlobalPost and aired in a series of reports for the BBC-PRI radio program The World. l will keep you posted on the timing of both of those projects.
GroundTruth is written by Charles Sennott, the Executive Editor and co-founder of GlobalPost. The blog is a way for GlobalPost to let you know what our correspondents all over the world are covering every day. It is a place where Sennott highlights the best work in the field by a stellar team of correspondents . 
One Comment
1 Mike W wrote:
Welcome back. Wondering what the relationship now is between the Taliban and Al-Queda, if any. Also, Obama made much of not capturing or killing Bin Laden. Any chatter on that as U S troop involvement increases?