[Dawn] The Afghan president says Taliban cut-throats "can't move a finger" without Pak support.Hamid
Maybe I'll join the TalibanKarzai
... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a
Pashtunface on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use...
spoke in an interview with the BBC that aired on Friday, the 10th anniversary of the US invasion.
However,
the hip bone's connected to the leg bone...
Karzai insists he doesn't mean to reprimand Pakistain but is simply saying what both nations already know in the hope of finding a solution to the conflict.
The US and its allies invaded Afghanistan on Oct. 7, 2001, seeking to topple the radical Islamic Taliban and the group's ability to provide safe harbor to al Qaeda in the wake of the 9/11 attacks on the United States.
In the interview, Karzai also said the Afghan government and international allies have failed to provide security for the Afghan people.