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...
will submit documents and evidence to Pak
President Asif Ali Ten PercentZardari
... husband of the late Benazir Bhutto, who has been singularly lacking in curiosity about who done her in ...
at a meeting in Turkey on Tuesday over the wounding of his intelligence director in a suicide kaboom which he says was planned in Pakistain, his front man said.
"President Karzai will submit all the documents and evidence in hand to Pakistain President Asif Ali Zardari, which suggest the attack was hatched in Quetta in Pakistain, and follow this up seriously," said Siamak Herawi, a front man for Karzai.
The bomber, who hid explosives inside his underwear and posed as a peace messenger, maimed spy chief Asadullah Khalid last Thursday in a brazen attack that set back a nascent, already fragile reconciliation process.
While the Taliban have grabbed credit for the bombing, Karzai has said the raid was too sophisticated to have been carried out by the Islamist krazed killer group.
"Bigger hands are involved," said Herawi, repeating a phrase often used by the Afghan leader after high-profile attacks.
Speaking after the attack, Karzai stopped short of directly blaming the neighbouring country but said he knew "for a fact" the bomber came from Pakistain and that Kabul would seek clarification from Islamabad during meetings in Turkey.
Karzai was to hold talks with Zardari at a trilateral summit hosted by Turkish President Abdullah Gul in Ankara on Tuesday and Wednesday. Foreign ministers and bigwigs from both countries will also meet at the summit, the seventh of its kind in Turkey.
Pakistain has said it would assist in any investigation into the bombing, but also urged Karzai to provide evidence before "leveling charges", and suggested Kabul look into any lapses in its own security arrangements that may have led to the raid.
Turkey, a NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis....
member that has troops stationed in Afghanistan, has sought to raise its international standing in recent years, playing host to high-level diplomatic events and attempting to act as a broker in conflict resolution.
Turkey's foreign minister has said he wants its largest city, Istanbul, to be a "UN city".
A Turkish official said on Monday a special hotline had been set up to allow Turkey, Afghanistan and Pakistain to communicate better during times of crisis.