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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Australia China India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam Karzai wins regional backing for Taliban peace plan AFP - 2 hours 12 minutes ago Send IM Story Print Karzai wins regional backing for Taliban peace plan Slideshow: Full Photo Coverage: War On Terror ISTANBUL (AFP) - – Afghan President Hamid Karzai won regional support on Tuesday for his efforts to cajole Islamist insurgents to lay down their arms, as Germany offered more troops and cash for the ravaged nation. After talks with his Turkish and Pakistani peers, as well as officials from countries such as China, Iran and Russia, Karzai described moderate Taliban fighters as "sons of the Afghan soil" who should be brought back into the fold. And in a joint statement after the meeting in Istanbul, the participants declared that they "support the Afghan national process of reconciliation and reintegration ... in a way that is Afghan-led and -driven." The Turkish-hosted talks form part of the build-up to a major conference in London on Thursday where Karzai hopes to secure Western support for his strategy of wooing Taliban fighters with the lure of jobs and money. That strategy already appears to have won the endorsement of Germany, whose Chancellor Angela Merkel announced Tuesday that her government would ask parliament for another 500 troops for Afghanistan. She said Berlin would also provide 50 million euros (70 million dollars) to a 500-million-dollar global fund to bring insurgents into the mainstream and roughly double development aid to 430 million euros. Berlin currently has about 4,300 troops in Afghanistan. Merkel's government wants to increase that by 500 as well as offer 350 reservists who could be deployed for a limited period. Karzai meanwhile told reporters in Istanbul that the reintegration of Taliban followers was essential to national unity, provided they were not followers of Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda network. "Those Taliban who were not part of terrorist networks or Al-Qaeda are the sons of the Afghan soil," Karzai said. "They are thousands and thousands and thousands and they have to be reintegrated." Facts: The UN Taliban blacklist On Monday, Karzai said he would appeal at the conference in London for Taliban names to be removed from a UN blacklist. The idea had previously met resistance but "as we are talking today, there is more willingness that this can be reconsidered," he said. While there was no immediate reaction to the proposal, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid stated last week that "the only political solution is that the foreign forces and the Afghan government surrender to us." Focus: Taliban unmoved by talk of peace overtures Attacks by Islamist insurgents have been on the upsurge in recent months. In the latest attack, at least five Afghan civilians were wounded Tuesday when a suicide bomber in a car laden with explosives struck near a foreign military base in Kabul. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs noted that US generals David Petraeus and Stanley McChrystal had drawn parallels between Afghanistan and reconciliation schemes that had worked with factions in Iraq. Gibbs did not comment in detail on Karzai's plan. But he said Washington was open to "a similar path to what happened in Iraq... provided that whoever this is accepts the Afghan constitution, renounces violence, and publicly breaks with groups that advocate violence." Richard Holbrooke, the special US envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, also said Monday that the 65 nations meeting in London would back Kabul's proposal to set up a reintegration fund to persuade fighters to lay down arms. The intensified peace efforts come as the United States and allies aim for an eventual withdrawal from Afghanistan after eight years of battling a brutal Islamist insurgency. Related article: Troops set for biggest Helmand mission Under a plan announced by President Barack Obama in December, 30,000 more US troops are to be deployed to the battlefield this year, and NATO partners have pledged about 10,000 new troops. That would swell the foreign deployment in Afghanistan to about 150,000 to tackle the insurgency and train Afghan police and army to prepare for when US troops begin to withdraw in mid-2011. Although Merkel refrained from giving a withdrawal date, her foreign minister said Germany wants to start bringing its soldiers home in 2011. Related article: Troops set for biggest Helmand mission And in a further sign of a shift in focus, diplomats said Britain's ambassador in Kabul, Mark Sewill, was to be named as NATO's new civilian representative in Afghanistan. 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