Hamid Karzai, the Afghanistan president, has said he will accept the opening of a Taliban office in Qatar for the purpose of holding peace talks.<br /><br />If the United States insists that the armed group establish a liaison office in Qatar, "we are agreed", Karzai said in a presidential statement on Tuesday.<br /><br />Earlier this month, Kabul recalled its ambassador to Qatar for consultations over reports that the Taliban was planning to open an office in the gulf country.<br /><br />As the 2014 deadline for the US led forces to pull out nears, there has been a growing need to engage the Islamists for a durable peace in the country.<br /><br />It has been identified that a proper address for Taliban will help facilitate the talks.<br /><br />The US and its NATO allies have been pursuing a war against the Taliban, but the armed group remains a force to be reckoned with, despite a decade of war.<br /><br />One complication to negotiations with the Taliban is that many Afghans still view them with suspicion and say they should answer for their past crimes.<br /><br />Al Jazeera's Jennifer Glasse reports From Kabul.
