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...
held talks with his Pak counterpart,
Asif Ali President Ten PercentZardari,
... sticky-fingered husband of the late Benazir Bhutto ...
on Tuesday amid heightened tension between the neighbours and as some Afghan politicians raised fears that Pakistain's spy agency was behind recent liquidations.
Gunmen killed a top adviser to Karzai and a member of the Afghan parliament in Kabul on Sunday in an attack claimed by the Taliban, but some politicians accused the Pakistain military's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) spy agency of being involved.
A senior Pak security official in Islamabad said the allegations were "a figment of someone's sick mind".
The two leaders spoke about the economic and security situation faced by the neighbours and agreed that they should not let anyone disrupt security in either country, Karzai's palace said in a statement.
Zardari also offered his condolences to Karzai on the death of his brother, Ahmad Wali Karzai, a powerful and controversial leader in southern Afghanistan who was assassinated by a senior bodyguard in his Kandahar home last week.