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| Afghanistan |
| Political Parties Criticise Karzai's Durand Remarks |
| 2013-05-07 |
| [Tolo News] A number of Afghan coalition leaders and members of political parties on Monday criticised President Karzai's recent remarks on Durand Line and calling it an attempt to increase public support in the elections. These political parties said that President Karzai wants to make himself a hero with such slogans now that little time is left of his presidential term and that the presidential election is also ahead. Political parties and political coalitions expressed surprise at why President Karzai was silent in the past eleven years and they said that such speeches only have advertising aspects and with such slogans problems of Durand Line will not be solved. A leading member of Afghanistan National Front Haji Mohammad Mohaqiq said that Pakistain in the last ten years had constructed military border check posts and military installations in Afghan territory, and criticised why Karzai was silent so far. "These remarks more seem like fables. If president Karzai wanted to work to clarify this event, he should have worked in the past ten years," Haji Mohammad Mohaqiq told TOLOnews. These party members called Karzai's recent speeches demagogy and added that in recent eleven years, he has not done anything about the issue but even four years ago he impeded negotiations for Durand in Jirg-e Amn. "By benefiting from such national issues, the President wants to stir people's emotions in his own interest in the election," Ahmad Zia Masoud leader of Afghanistan National Front told TOLOnews. "Durand Line issue will not be solved with such slogans. There must be diplomatic talks between both countries," Fazil Sancharaki National Coalition front man said. "President Karzai must find a rational and fundamental solution for this problem and this problem had to be solved 11 years ago. Now such speeches are useless," Moien Marastyal member of Rights and Justice party said. "I think President Karzi can talk about this issue, well he is the president and he has the right to talk about it,"Parliament's First Vice speaker Mirwais Yasini said. Meanwhile, ...back at the the precinct, Lieutenant Queeg was stumped. Who could be leaking Mahoney's information like that?... some residents of Kabul city expressed different views about the Durand Line. "Although these parts belong to Afghanistan, but I think now it is not the time to raise this issue," a Kabul resident told TOLOnews. |
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