US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel denied what the Afghan leader, Hamid Karzai, had said about daily meetings between Taliban and the United States.

US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel denied what the Afghan leader, Hamid Karzai, had said about daily meetings between Taliban and the United States.

“I told the president that it was not true that the United States was unilaterally working with the Taliban,” Hagel told reporters on Sunday adding that “any prospect for peace or political settlements -- that has to be led by the Afghans.”

Hagel also expressed Washington’s support for “efforts if they are led by the Afghans to come to some possible resolution.”

Karzai on Sunday, slammed the extremist group for holding talks with the US and launching s suicide attacks that kill civilians and children.

He 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 bombs that were detonated in Kabul and Khost were not a show of force, they were serving America. It is their slogan for 2014, scaring us that if the US is not here our people will be eliminated,” Karzai said.