Byline: KARL SCHOENBERGER Knight Ridder
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Progress toward forming a post-Taliban government in Afghanistan appeared stalled on Monday as the United Nations special representative for Afghanistan, Lakhdar Brahimi, arrived in Islamabad for a round of consultations with Pakistani and exiled Afghan leaders.
Brahimi snubbed a request for a meeting from the Taliban ambassador to Islamabad, saying he was not optimistic about the possibility of opening a dialogue with Taliban leaders at this time, following the Taliban's arrest and execution on Friday of Afghan Pashtun tribal leader leader Abdul Haq, who was seen as a key participant in political …
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