TOLOnews 10 March 2013 FARAKHABAR/ فراخبر ۱۰ مارچ ۲۰۱۳

President Hamid Karzai Sunday said that the senior Taliban leaders and the US are holding talks in Qatar and Europe without the Afghan government. "The senior leaders of the Taliban and the Americans are engaged in talks in Europe and the Gulf state every day," Karzai told a gathering to mark International Women's Day in Kabul. The Taliban officially ended talks with the US a year ago amid disagreement about the release of Taliban prisoners from US military prison based in Cuba's Guantanamo Bay. But the Taliban has denied that any negotiations with the US have happened since last year's suspension, and said no progress had been made. The US government, for its part, has said it remains committed to the Afghan political reconciliation with the Taliban, but progress would require agreement between the Afghan government and the insurgents. Last week Karzai also announced that the US will transfer Bagram prison fully to Afghan authority on Saturday, but it did not happen. On Sunday he insisted it will definitely happen this week. Will it? And what impact will his comments on the US and the Taliban have? Host Yama Siavash looks at different aspects of the topic with Kabul University lecturer Faizullah Jalal and journalist Shah Husssian Murtazawi.