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Pakistan condemns assassination of Karzai's brother
[Dawn] Pakistain condemned the killing on Tuesday of Afghanistan's Caped President Hamid Maybe I'll join the TalibanKarzai's ... 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... younger brother as "an act of cowardice". Snicker-snicker... Although relations between the neighbours have been strained by accusations over cross-border attacks in recent weeks, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani ... Pakistain's erstwhile current prime minister, whose occasional feats of mental gymnastics can be awe-inspiring ... telephoned Karzai to express his condolences. Chortle-chortle... Gilani's office said he expressed "shock and grief" over Ahmed Wali Karzai's liquidation. The younger Karzai, who was long accused of involvement in corruption and Afghanistan's drugs trade, was a key ally of the president and US-led NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the style of the American pants... forces in the south of the country, the headquarters of a Taliban insurgency. Pakistain was a key ally of the Afghan Taliban regime until siding with the US-led invasion of Afghanistan that followed the September 11, 2001 attacks and ultimately implanted Karzai in power. Posted by: Fred 2011-07-13 |
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