Afghan paper says Kabul attack Taleban's response to reconciliation.

Text of editorial in Dari entitled "Answer to government's plan for reconsolidation with Taleban" by Afghan independent secular daily newspaper Hasht-e Sobh on 19 January

The systematic terrorist attacks on the most crowded parts of Kabul city, only some distance the presidential palace, were carried out at a time when the government talks of a plan to negotiate with Taleban - a plan the United States and Britain have also backed.

But the recent attacks have been a very clear response to this optimism and the simple-mindedness of the Afghan government and its international allies. We have witnessed such incidents whenever the government floats the plan of …