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Afghanistan
Karzai pledges to 'hunt' for Malala's attackers
2012-11-11
[Dawn] fghan President Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai
... 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 Pashtun face 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...
on Saturday promised to hunt for the Taliban attackers who shot Pak teenage activist Malala Yousafzai for speaking up for girls' rights to education.

The Pak Taliban has admitted shooting Malala in the head on a school bus a month ago to punish her for the "crime" of campaigning for girls' rights to go to school in the jihad boys' former Pak stronghold of Swat.

"Afghanistan will hunt for Malala's attackers," Karzai said in an interview with India's CNN-IBN television network, aired as he began a four-day visit to the South Asian nation and as the world marked "Malala Day".

Miraculously the 15-year-old survived the shooting and her courage, which won the hearts of millions around the world, prompted the United Nations
...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly...
to declare Saturday a "global day of action" for her.

Speaking about Malala, who is recovering in a British hospital, Karzai accused Islamabad of having armed and trained the teenager's assailants.

"Terrorism is a snake and when you train a snake, you can't expect it will only go in the neighbour's house," he said. "When the attack on Malala happened, this proved our point," he added.

"The earlier they (the Paks) accept it and fight radicalism, the better for us, the better for Pakistain and the better for India," Karzai said.

The Afghanistan's Caped President regularly accuses Pakistain of supporting Taliban Islamist gunnies trying to topple his government -- a charge Islamabad denies.
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