US envoy to Pakistan talks to Islamist parties

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Updated August 19, 2009 20:59:34

Richard Holbrooke, America's special envoy to Pakistan, has been holding talks with some interesting people in Islamabad and elsewhere in this rather crucial week of Afghanistan's presidential elections. Among those on his agenda have been the leadership of the right wing Jamaat-e-Islami party, which used to be associated with the Taliban. Pakistan's president Asif Ali Zardari is calling it a 'new era'.

Presenter: Zulfikar Abbany
Speaker: Bashir Ahmad, Institute of Regional Studies, Islamabad

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