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Afghanistan
Karzai under fire for supportive remarks towards Taliban group
2016-09-29
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The former Afghanistan's Caped President Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai
... 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 Pashtun face 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...
being under criticims is not new specifically for his stance against the Taliban group but the objections have been on the rise during the recent days for his latest interview where he said the group can have control of the parts of the country similar as other Afghans.

The Chief Executive Officer Abdullah Abdullah
... the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against Karzai. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun...
sharply cricitized Karzai for his remarks and emphasized that the former President should respond to the nation for his remarks.

The majority of the Afghan people have long been criticizing Karzai for calling the Taliban group as ’brothers’ despite the group is accused of the majority of civilian casualties in the country.

Questioning Karzai’s remarks which he delivered during an interview with BBc Afghanistan service, Abdullah said the 13 years of presidency of Karzai was also not legitimate.

Abdullah made the remarks to respond to Karzai’s criticism of the ongoing fight against insurgency where he said the use of force against the Taliban group is not legitimate.

In his interview with BBC, Karzaid said he had banned the US forces to carry out Arclight airstrikes, insisting that only Afghans were killed in such raids under different names, pointing towards Taliban.

The US forces in Afghanistan resumed Arclight airstrikes and support to the Afghan forces earlier this year amid deteriorating security situation in the country led by the Taliban group.

The government of national unity also allowed the Afghan forces to use heavy weaponry against the Taliban group including the use of artillery which was banned during the Karzai administration.

Posted by:Fred