Influential US Senator John I was in Vietnam, you knowKerry
Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, the Senate's current
foreign policy expert, filling the vacated wingtips of Joe Biden...
met 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...
in Kabul late Saturday, the president's office said, ahead of Kerry's visit to Pakistain after the killing of the late Osama bin Laden.
... who is now among the dear departed, though not among the dearest...
"They discussed Afghanistan, the regional situation... and also developments following the death of Osama bin Laden," Karzai's office said in a statement on Sunday.
The White House has said it endorses the trip by Kerry to Pakistain amid badly strained ties over the killing of the al-Qaeda chief in Abbottabad, just 40 miles (65 kilometres) from Islamabad, on May 2.
Kerry, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations committee, will be the most senior US official to visit Islamabad since elite US troops killed bin Laden.
The covert raid has plunged Pak politics into crisis with both President
Asif Ali President Ten PercentZardari
... sticky-fingered husband of the late Benazir Bhutto ...
and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani facing demands to resign.
Calls in America for a rapid withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan have increased since the killing of bin Laden.