Afghanistan: A Meeting Between Karzai and the Haqqanis?

An Al Jazeera report that Afghan President Hamid Karzai met with the son of the leader of the Haqqani network, a well-connected Taliban group that straddles the Afghan-Pakistani border, has been denied by both the Taliban and Karzai's government. As inaccurate as the rumor may be, it does reflect the underlying fact that contact and communications between the Karzai government and the Haqqanis are very real.