Tolo News: While Afghanistan’s constitution allows a president to serve only two terms in office, former president Hamid Karzai has said that should political parties reach an agreement over him running for office he would stand against the challenges and do so. “Unfortunately, there is confusion in the constitution of Afghanistan about a citizen (being able) to
Tolo News: Speaking at an Afghanistan Law and Political Studies Organization gathering in Kabul on Thursday, Qanooni said: “CIA’s site office in Islamabad was coordinating with (Pakistan’s) ISI; this office recommended to the US that any alternative to the Taliban must be a Pashtun-oriented alternative and that the United Front shouldn’t be an alternative to
1TV: Speaking at an event in Kabul, Qanooni, dismissed claims that Karzai was chosen all of a sudden at the Bonn conference or the united front was responsible for his rise to power… Citing a book of U.S. diplomat James Dobbins, the “orchestrator” of Bonn conference, Qanooni said that the director of Pakistan’s spy agency, the Inter-Services
Sputnik: “Moscow has always helped us, even when its forces invaded Afghanistan at the invitation of then-president Babrak Karmal. We surely fought each other at those times, but you [Russia] used to build schools and hospitals in Afghanistan. Americans lie when they say that al-Qaeda emerged as the result of your invasion. They used the war
Press TV February 15, 2018 The United States is not in Afghanistan to defeat the Taliban but because America’s main rivals like China, Russia and Iran are in the neighborhood, former Afghan President Hamid Karzai says. Karzai, 60, made the remarks in an interview with The Washington Post’s Pamela Constable who’s the newspaper’s bureau chief in
The Washington Post: He has long been dismissed by critics as a cranky, embittered has-been, given to provocative rants against the American government whose might and money sustained his government for years — and whose relationship with him eventually soured into a recrimination-filled frost. Click here to read more (external link).
Press TV February 9, 2018 The Russian presidential envoy to Afghanistan says there are indications that the US military is allowing members of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group, who have suffered serious defeats in Syria and neighboring Iraq, to infiltrate Afghanistan. “It’s noteworthy that the extremists themselves and weapons for them, according to numerous witness accounts,
Tolo News: Karzai said US wants to establish permanent bases in Afghanistan to project power in the region, while Pakistan wants to turn Afghanistan into a client state. “In my view their intention is to keep us divided and weak so they can carry on their objectives in this region,” Karzai said. “They have their global politics
VOA News January 1, 2018 Ayaz Gul ISLAMABAD — U.S. President Donald Trump is again accusing Pakistan of sheltering terrorists whom American forces are fighting in neighboring Afghanistan. In his first Twitter message of 2018, Trump wrote, “The United States has foolishly given Pakistan more than 33 billion dollars in aid over the last 15 years,
DW: Former President Hamid Karzai briefs DW on the continued security problems in Afghanistan. He advocates an immediate appraisal of what’s gone wrong, saying Afghanistan’s future is in the hands of the younger generation. Click here to read more (external link). Other Security News Explosion kills eight civilians in South Afghanistan