Karzai (left) and Ghani (right)
Khaama Press
December 10, 2015
The former Afghan President Hamid Karzai has rejected the remarks by President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani for calling the residents of Waziristan tribal regions ‘Pakistanis’.
The office of the Former President issued a statement following President Ghani’s remarks he delivered during the Heart of Asia summit in Islamabad, the capital city of Pakistan.
The statement further added that the Former President has expressed hopes that President Ghani’s visit to Pakistan will result to peace and stability in the region and lead to strengthening ties between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
However, Karzai said he strongly rejects President Ghani’s remarks for calling the residents of Waziristan ‘Pakistanis’, insisting that the Durand Line was imposed and drawn on the chest of Afghanistan during the British colonial government and therefore will never be accepted by the people of Afghanistan.
Karzai also added that the residents of Waziristan were forced to shift on this side of Durand Line after losing their homes in airstrikes and military raids, insisting that they have only shifted from one home to another home.
He said the residents of Waziristan are therefore not refugees of Pakistan and have equal and complete right similar as the Afghan people.
Long live Karzai ! Infact, from amo river up to andus river is afghanistan & the afghans will never accept the durand line. law aw bar yaw afghan
Loy (Great) Afghanistan will be made soon, although if the ISI & panjab military forces creat different kinds of problems for both sides of pashtons, Pak-Panjabi governament creat the talibans, they supported the jihadi leaders against Dr. Najibullah AhmadZai government, they created Dayish group in Nangrahar province made majority from owrakzai pashtons & as well up to now Pak-Panjabi military forces & ISI would like to creat many kind of insecurity problems for Afghan government . . . all mentioned problems are only because of the durand line but panjab government must know, that Afghan government & Afghan Nation will forever never accept the durand line, Inshallah from amo up to abasin river & from gilgit up to gwadar the Loy (Great) Afghanistan will be made.