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| Karzai: Afghanistan Never Recognised the Durand Line |
| 2013-05-05 |
[TOLONEWS] The 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... on Saturday has said that Afghanistan has never recognised the Durand Line. Speaking at a presser in Kabul after the recent border festivities between the Afghan and Pak forces, President Karzai said Pak military installations across the Durand Line in the Afghan territory was an "futile attempt" to push Kabul to discuss the border issue with Islamabad, something President Karzai said his government "will never be ready for it." "They [the Afghan people] should stand with this young man who was martyred in defending his soil," Karzai said, referring to a slain Afghan border policeman, Mohammad Qasim, who was killed Wednesday night in a border gunfire with Pak forces. There were reports that two Pak soldiers were also maimed in the exchange of fire. The Afghan president praised a nation-wide reaction of the Afghan people in encouraging their armed forces to defend their country, calling on the Taliban to "turn their weapons against the enemies of their properties." Karzai's remarks are likely to unsettle already shaky ties with Pakistain and come as the US wants Pakistain to help Afghanistan persuade the Taliban to engage in peace talks ahead of the withdrawal of most foreign troops by the end of next year. Afghanistan and Pakistain have had testy relations since Pakistain was formed in 1947, at the end of British colonial rule over India. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 HHHHMMMM, HHHMMMM, I'm not sure but as per various Net Artics I'm not confident that Karzai was referring only to Pakistan when he called on the Taliban ro fight Afghanistan's enemies. Read, PAKISTAN = USA??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2013-05-05 22:37 |