Seeking to find Taliban leaders, in his meeting with Pakistani officials, President Karzai reportedly asked them to bring Mullah Omar to the negotiating table. The request caused both astonishment and anger at the Pakistani side. "Deliver Mullah Omar? If that is the expectation, then there's no reality check. Then they're not only unrealistic, but preposterous," these were the words of Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar over Karzai's demands.

The request and reaction clearly show the exhausting nature of non-strategic approaches towards Taliban. To some point in pushing forward the unappealing reconciliation process, President Karzai tried to legitimize their terrorist activities but ultimately failed to win their hearts and minds.

At the most recent statement by Taliban to refute President Karzai's closeness to Taliban, they denied any meetings were held between Afghan government and Taliban representatives. President Karzai had claimed his government representatives and Taliban leaders had met.

The recent course of happenings suggests a serious question: does president Karzai not understand the reality or Taliban offensives are not powerful enough to illustrate their willingness to overthrow his government? Taliban have been struggling to prove to Afghan government that they will leave no stone unturned to restore violence and instability in Afghanistan.

However, President Karzai doesn't believe they mean it. The lessons always remain unlearnt. Amidst political instability and the increasingly divergent approaches over the failing reconciliation process, Taliban's extremely organized offensives, suicide attacks, high profile assassinations, hit-and-run operations and road side bombings have extremely increased across the country in comparison to those before the reconciliation process was launched.

Observing the troublesome situation across the country, Afghan government officials futilely hope that Karzai's placating policies could help his peace initiative become successful. Since the beginning, Al Qaeda-backed Taliban, the stubborn extremist militants, are treated kindly by Afghan President and his team. But the reality is too lucid to be concealed by naïve hopeful statements.

Derived from naively optimistic views, Afghan government has so far practiced a bunch of unrealistic policies that has led only to the current deteriorating security and fading hopes of the nation. Confident enough to avoid responsibility, the President on Friday blamed NATO-led International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan for the failures and said the Taliban have regained strength due to repeated mistakes by the ISAF. But it will go down in history that his over-placating policies turned a bunch of fugitive Taliban into irrepressible barbaric forces.