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| Afghanistan |
| Kayani meets Karzai, Kerry for Afghan peace talks |
| 2013-04-25 |
| [Dawn] Pakistain's Army chief General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani ... four star general, current Chief of Army Staff of the Mighty Pak Army. Kayani is the former Director General of ISI... was in Brussels Wednesday to meet Afghan 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... and US Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you knowKerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat,conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... for talks over the Afghan grinding of the peace processor as NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... prepares to withdraw its troops next year. The Army chief was accompanied by Foreign Secretary Jalil Jilani. Talks between Afghanistan's Caped President Hamid Karzai and Pak officials were productive but any progress will be measured in results, US Secretary of State John Kerry said. "We had a very extensive and, I think everybody would agree, productive and constructive dialogue ... but we have all agreed that results are what will tell the story, not statements at pressers," Kerry told news hounds after hosting the talks with Karzai and the army chief and Foreign Secretary Jilani. |
| Posted by:Fred |