KABUL: Afghanistan’s chief negotiator in peace talks that began in Pakistan this week said on Tuesday that he was hopeful Taliban insurgents would join the process but warned that public support would wane if there were no quick results. Deputy Foreign Minister Hekmat Karzai said the first meeting in Islamabad on Monday had mainly been intended to set a framework for the process before a meeting in Kabul on January 18 to draw up a roadmap for talks with the Taliban. The key question remains whether the Taliban, badly divided as a result of the leadership dispute which broke out last year but increasingly successful on the battlefield, will participate in the process, which is backed by Pakistan, the United States and China. “After 30 years of war, I think they are interested and they are inclined towards joining this process,” Karzai told a news conference in Kabul. A previous round broke down in July after it became known that the Taliban’s founder and leader, Mullah Omar, had actually been dead for two years and his deputy Mullah Akhtar Mansour had been in control. “I think there are some problems among the Taliban themselves. They do not talk with one voice but we have to be open to talk to all of them,” Karzai said.