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Afghanistan
Karzai: Foreigners Shouldnt Go Against Afghan National Sovereignty
2010-08-08
[Tolo News] Afghanistan's Caped President, Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai, on Saturday in his speech at the institute of civil services, accused foreigners of not respecting Afghan national sovereignty
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems like if it wasn't for us foreigners Afghanistan would have no sovereignty. Seems like the last government was split between catspaws of the Pak religious parties and murderous Arabians, with a tiny handful of native Tadjiks actually forming the "sovereign state" of Pandjir.
Afghanistan's Caped President said private security firms are the cause of insecurity in the country and besides urging the foreign forces to ban these firms, called that details of contracts among Afghan firms and foreign forces should be unveiled.
Silly us, we thought that the cause of insecurity in Afghanistain was the Taliban, Hekmatyar's Hizbies, the Pak Taliban, al-Qaeda, its imported Chechens, and let us not forget the Uzbeks. Without them there'd be no need for private security forces.
While emphasising on the Afghanisation of the domestic institutions, President Karzai warned foreigners to respect Afghanistan's national sovereignty.
"Afghanization," is it? If I was Ismail Khan I'd be opening "Ismail's Security Co., Inc.," and hiring some fellows who'd worked for me in the past. And I'd be cackling in my beard as I discovered that my chief business rival was "Dostum's Security for All Occasions." Hamid should lay off the opium for awhile.
"Private security firms daily bring misfortune to our country. They step over the rights of our people, they deteriorate our security," he said. "God knows they may commit robbery and block ways during the day and turn into bad boys at night. Until the contracts are not disclosed, corruption sources cannot be fought properly."
"How's anybody gonna get a piece of the action if we don't know where the action is?"
President Karzai sees the presence of Afghan advisors rather than foreign consultants in the Afghan organisations as a need. "Any Afghan organisation that decreases the number of foreign advisors and add to Afghans, can be successful," he said.
Dostum should be jumping on that statement.
Meanwhile, President Karzai criticised the comments made by foreigners about Afghan government's inability doing work and fulfilling its duties. "Statements like 'Afghanistan does not have the ability to this or that, should not be interpreted that we are not able to do anything and that they should be with us doing everything," he said.
Posted by:Fred

#1  if it wasn't for us foreigners Afghanistan would have no sovereignty.
I think Afghan sovereignty consists of this: killing every foreigner who is not a jihadi. This definition comports with the evidence.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2010-08-08 11:46  

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