http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-17719956
Mirwais Yasini, an MP from Nangarhar, told BBC News: ''This shows the Taliban don't want peace.
"They don't want to negotiate. They are not serious. They want to continue the killing of innocent people."
The MP said it was clear an intelligence failure had occurred.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/story/2012-04-14/afghan-taliban-peace-council/54274788/1
KABUL (AP) The son of a former Afghan peace council chairman killed by a suicide bomber was elected Saturday to succeed his father as head of the group tasked with reaching out to the Taliban to find a political resolution to the decade-long war.
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Rabbani also said that continued fighting has resulted in the long presence of foreign forces on Afghan soil.
"If we have peace in our country, there will be no reason for the foreign forces to stay," he said.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-rt-us-afghanistan-attacks-futurebre83e0b8-20120415,0,5349708.story
Afghan Taliban say more similar attacks to come
KABUL (Reuters) - The Afghan Taliban vowed to launch similar attacks to those that engulfed the Afghan capital of Kabul and several provinces on Sunday.
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told Reuters that the assaults were in retaliation for the burning of copies of the Koran at a NATO base, the killing of 17 Afghan civilians for which a U.S. soldier has been charged as well as for videos apparently showing U.S. Marines urinating on dead Taliban.
(Reporting by Hamid Shalizi)