[Dawn] Afghanistan's Caped President 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...
stressed equitable and deeper collaboration between Pakistain and Afghanistan to sustain brotherly and close ties.
Karzai in a letter to Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani
... Pakistain's erstwhile current prime minister, whose occasional feats of mental gymnastics can be awe-inspiring ...
, mentioned the Third Afghan-Iran-Pakistain Trilateral Summit in Islamabad that offered yet another opportunity to pursue bilateral dialogue between the two countries.
The president said he has often mentioned both privately and publicly that Afghanistan and Pakistain were twins and it was essential that they sustain a brotherly and equitable collaboration.
Karzai said he had a strong sense of a shared determination to ensure peace, security and prosperity for both the countries, assuming his government's full cooperation in realising the mutual commitments made in Islamabad.