Continuing with the newest Afghanistan metric, President Hamid Karzai’s whining has intensified, this time to the point where he follows up an attempt to walk back Thursday’s anti-western rant with a statement to a group of parliamentarians declaring that he’ll join the Taliban if he’s forced to be More…
As he attempts to take control of a crucial election-monitoring body ahead of this fall’s parliamentary contest, Afghan President Hamid Karzai gave a blustery statement accusing his longtime Western allies and sponsors of trying to prevent the vote by insisting it should be free and fair. Karzai said the More…
No sooner did the Post speculate about the future of CIA asset/drug-deal facilitator/quasi-warlord/Kandahar official/presidential brother Ahmed Wali Karzai than Dexter Filkins of The New York Times reports that no one is really going to bother trying to oust an unmovable political object. And since that’s the case, More…
The Washington Post has a great story that looks at the opening phases of the forthcoming U.S.-NATO-Afghan push to take the regions surrounding Kandahar city away from the Taliban, an operation expected to be militarily underway by June. But as Gen. Stanley McChrystal, commander of U.S. and NATO forces in More…
Afghan President Hamid Karzai is in a bad mood because President Obama is too mean to him. His people ran to Some anonymous official ran to The New York Times to say so:
“He has developed a complete theory of American power,” said an Afghan who attended the
Reuters reports that Afghanistan’s parliament quietly passed a blanket amnesty for human-rights abuses committed before the fall of the Taliban. A war widow from western Kabul named Sakina comments to Eurasia Insight that President Hamid Karzai “wants to give the Taliban money, land and privileges. [And] to me, More…
It’s gotten much less attention than his unilateral revision of Afghanistan’s electoral law, but Afghan President Hamid Karzai is scaling back a milestone for human rights in post-Taliban Afghanistan: setting aside parliamentary seats for women politicians. Things are still in flux, and for weeks, a spokesman for the More…
I read The Times’ piece about Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar’s arrest and kept getting tripped up by all the Pakistani officials quoted and paraphrased in a state of outrage that they weren’t invited to any negotiations with the Taliban. (“On the one hand, the Americans don’t want us to More…
NATO’s major diplomats and other assorted friends are in London right now to reinforce their commitment to the post-Taliban government in Afghanistan headed by Hamid Karzai. The so-called London Conference (following on the 2011 Bonn Conference) has just issued its communique, essentially a document outlining political, security, economic and More…
Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, has said his country must reach out to its “disenchanted brothers” in an effort to stabilise the war ravaged nation.
Addressing a one-day international conference on Afghanistan’s future in London, the British capital, Karzai said that fighters who are “not part of al-Qaeda
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