Afghan President Hamid Karzai plans to ask the United Nations to remove as many as 50 former Taleban members from a UN blacklist, the Washington Post reports.
The request to remove about a quarter of the 137 names on the list is aimed at advancing reconciliation talks with insurgents, the report says, citing a senior Afghan official.
At least five are former Taleban officials who now serve in Parliament or privately mediate between the Government and the insurgents.
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