… peace deal with the Islamist militants. "If you just rely on the military—we've seen the result," explains Mohammad Masoom Stanekzai, the senior presidential adviser for peace and reconciliation. "There is no purely military solution in Afghanistan …

… The message is that people who want to take part in the peace process should have the way cleared for them," said Mohammad Masoom Stanekzai, secretary of a peace council set up by Afghanistan's president. "To those that think war is the only means to …

… On Monday, Former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani, leader of the country's newly formed peace council, and Mohammad Masoom Stanekzai, a top adviser to Karzai, traveled to Kandahar to discuss Afghanistan's peace and reintegration program with provincial …

… war. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to describe the subject publicly. Mohammad Masoom Stanekzai, a top adviser to Afghan President Hamid Karzai who also spoke with reporters, confirmed the contacts that were conducted …

… them from the U.N. sanctions list or granting a few of them exile in another country, according to the draft. Mohammad Masoom Stanekzai, Karzai's point man on reconciliation, believes offering incentives to Taliban foot soldiers alone cannot end …

… offering protection, jobs, literacy and vocational training plus development aid for their villages. NATO officials and Mohammad Masoom Stanekzai, a top Karzai adviser who crafted the program, have said that insurgents in seven of Afghanistan's 34 provinces …