Afghan President Hamid Karzai slammed Taliban on Sunday, saying the extremist group has been holding daily talks with the United States as it also launches suicide attacks that kill civilians and children.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai slammed Taliban on Sunday, saying the extremist group has been holding daily talks with the United States as it also launches suicide attacks that kill civilians and children.

Reacting after two suicide bombs killed 19 people in Kabul and Khost on Saturday, Karzai accused the Taliban of negotiating with their enemy at the same time as murdering innocent Afghans. He also stressed that these attack serve the US.

"The Taliban said they wanted to show their strength (by launching the attacks)," he said.
"This is while the leaders of the Taliban, their representatives, are every day at meetings with the Americans abroad.

"We know about it, both the foreigners tell us about it and the Taliban. In Europe as well as in Gulf countries, the Taliban and the Americans and foreigners are in talks on a daily basis."

Karzai said the attacks enabled the US-led military force to justify its presence in Afghanistan.
"The bombs that were detonated in Kabul and Khost were not a show of force, they were serving America," he said in a televised speech in Kabul.

The extremist militants deny re-opening talks after they broke off tentative contact with the US in Qatar in March last year due to failed attempts to negotiate a prisoner exchange.