[Pak Daily Times] 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...
said on Saturday a suicide kaboom that maimed the country's spy chief was planned in Pak city of Quetta, and added he would raise the issue with Islamabad.
| Islamabad, of course, will tut tut with feeling, then do absolutely nothing. Or nothing helpful, anyway. |
"We know that this man who came in the name of a guest to meet with Asadullah Khalid came from Pakistain. We know that for a fact. That is clear," Karzai told news hounds. "This attack was plotted... from the (southwestern) city of Quetta in Pakistain. I will raise this issue with Pakistain." He added that the Taliban "cannot carry out such attacks". "It was an absolutely professional and engineered attack -- bigger hands were involved," he said.
Kabul last year blamed Pakistain for the liquidation of the head of Afghanistan's High Peace Council, Burhanuddin Rabbani
... the gentlemanly murdered legitimate president of Afghanistan...
, also killed by a bomber posing as a Taliban peace envoy, claims which Pakistain rejected. Relations between the neighbours are often tense and Kabul has accused Pakistain of supporting the Taliban, accusations Islamabad has always rejected, insisting it is committed to fighting the thugs.