At one point, Mr. Karzai suggested that he himself would be compelled to join the other side – that is, the Taliban – if the parliament did not back his controversial attempt to take control of the country’s electoral watchdog from the United Nations, according to three of those who attended the meeting, including a close ally of the president.

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