No peace talks with the Taliban --- this is the latest from Afghan President Hamid Karzai.<br/> He says his government needs some way to reach the Taliban directly and to hold them accountable.<br/> SOUNDBITE: Afghan President Hamid Karzai saying:<br/> "We cannot keep talking to suicide bombers. Therefore we have stopped talking about talking to Taliban until we have an address for the Taliban, till we have a telephone number for the Taliban, till we have a door that we can go and knock on as the address of the Taliban."<br/> Karzai's comments came after a summit in Turkey with Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari -- in an effort to heal a rift over the September assassination of an Afghan peace envoy.<br/> The assassination had prompted Karzai to say there isn't a point in talking with insurgents and that it is better to deal directly with Pakistan directly.<br/> The Afghan government has long acused Pakistan of supporting the Taliban and has suggested that the person who killed the Afghanistan Peace envoy came from Quetta.<br/> Deborah Gembara, Reuters.
