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...
flew to Pakistain for a two-day visit on Friday at the personal invitation of Pak President Asif Ali
President Ten PercentZardari
... sticky-fingered husband of the late Benazir Bhutto ...
President Karzai's visit to Pakistain is the first since al-Qaeda leader the late Osama bin Laden
... who walked in the shadow of the Valley of the Shadow of Death and didn't make it out...
was killed by US special forces in Abbottabad near Islamabad.
He is expected to have meetings with Pak
President Asif Ali Ten PercentZardari
... husband of the late Benazir Bhutto, who has been singularly lacking in curiosity about who done her in ...
and Pak Premier Yosuf Raza Gilani.
The talks will focus on peace talks with the Taliban, but President Karzai is also expected to discuss trade relations with Pakistain.
Relations between Afghanistan and Pakistain have been strained since the US raid on Bin Laden Compound in May.
After the news emerged that Osama bin Laden was found and killed in Pakistain, the Afghanistan's Caped President reacted by calling on international community to take the war terror beyond Afghan borders.
Both US and Afghan officials have criticised Pakistain for not acting honestly against cut-throats on its soil, something Pak officials have frequently denied.
Pak Prime Minister Yosuf Raza Gilani dismissed all allegations against Pak government and its spy organisation (ISI) and said the murder of al-Qaeda leader on Pak soil was not an evidence of his country's complicity in hiding him.
But top US officials including President Barack
B.O.Obama believed that Osama bin Laden could not have lived in comfort near Islamabad for several years without having some sort of support network in Pakistain.
After the raid on Bin Laden compound, some US officials including Senator John F.
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...
, Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton... sometimes described as the Smartest Woman in the World and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as
Another Henry Kissinger...
and Admiral Mike Mullen visited Islamabad and pushed Pak officials to take more steps against hard boyz on Pak soil.
Pak security forces have launched some operations in the tribal belt, but Pak Taliban and other bully boy groups have also stepped up their attacks against Pak security forces and have even attacked military spots in the country resulting to scores of military and civilian casualties.
Pak Taliban have grabbed credit for most of the attacks and vowed to continue their attacks to avenge Osama bin Laden's death.