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Pakistan wanted Durand Line recognition to improve ties with Afghanistan: Karzai
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The former Afghanistan's Caped President Hamid Maybe I'll join the TalibanKarzai ... 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... said Tuesday that the Pak leadership wanted recognition of Durand Line during his tenure in a bid to improve ties between the two nations. In his inaugural address at the Raisina Dialogue in New Delhi, the former President recalled his visits to Pakistain while serving the nation as the Afghanistan's Caped President, saying "During my presidency, I visited Pakistain more than twenty times, with utmost enthusiasm and sincerity, to address our mutual concerns and to take concrete steps towards improving our political and economic ties." However, today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday... he said "From the Pak perspective, peaceful and friendly relations with Afghanistan were conditioned on the recognition of the Durand line, one of the very negative legacies of the Colonial rule, and the right to influence the nature of our relations with one of our closest and oldest friends." He stressed "In the past fifteen years, I have constantly underlined the impossibility of the recognition of the Durand Line by Afghanistan; while expressing Afghan desire for friendly and cooperative relations with Pakistain." Karzai recalled the ups and downs with Pakistain during his tenure while noting the great economic rise of Asia led by global giants China and India, as well as the continuing rise of myrmidon extremism with deadly and painful consequences in the region. He also recalled the historic position of the region which remained as the commercial, intellectual and spiritual hub of the world and noted the existing plethora of initiatives in the form of strategies to revive those routes and networks. "As the Silk Route once cut across geographical barriers from Europe, India and China, we want Afghanistan to once again become a land-bridge connecting South Asia to Central Asia and the Middle East," Karzai said. Posted by: 2016-03-02 |
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