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| Afghanistan |
| Karzai leaves for Brussels meeting |
| 2013-04-24 |
[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... left Tuesday for talks in Brussels with top US and Pak officials aimed at reviving faltering efforts to bring peace to his country. Karzai's office says patience is running out with Pakistain, seen by the West as a key player in brokering peace with Taliban bully boyz who have been battling the Kabul government and US-led foreign forces since 2001. US Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you knowKerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat,conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... will host Wednesday's talks between Karzai and Pakistain's army chief General Ashfaq Kayani ... four star general, current Chief of Army Staff of the Mighty Pak Army. Kayani is the former Director General of ISI... , along with other bigwigs on both sides. Kerry said Monday the aim was to "try to talk about how we can advance this process in the simplest, most cooperative, most cogent way" to satisfy Pakistain's and Afghanistan's interests and end up with "a stable and peaceful Afghanistan". Relations between Islamabad and Kabul, strained for years, appeared to make headway earlier in the year but have once again nosedived. The Taliban still refuse in public to negotiate with Karzai's government. "Pakistain has not taken practical measures towards the Afghan grinding of the peace processor so far. Afghans are running out of patience," Karzai's front man Aimal Faizi said Monday. |
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