The Taliban leadership council first approached the government about peace talks last year, a senior security adviser said, after suffering heavy battlefield casualties and seeing the election of a civilian, antimilitant government in Pakistan.

Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

his mercurial temperament

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