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India-Pakistan
Pakistan using terrorism as tool against immediate neighbors: Karzai
2016-08-22
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The former Afghanistan's Caped 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...
has said Pakistain is still using terrorism as a tool against its immediate neighbors.

In his speech at a think tank in New Delhi, Karzai said ’the war on terror has failed to discourage Pakistain from using terrorism and religious radicalism as tools against its immediate neighbors.’

The former Afghanistan's Caped President further added that the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
murderous Moslems who have emerged as a new threat to Afghanistan were finding support from a ’sinister agency" from "across the border".

"We know that the IS in Afghanistan is made of imported muscle. We know that these fighters are being controlled by a sinister agency from across the border," Karzai was quoted as saying in a report by The Hindu newspaper.

In other parts of his speech, Karzai blamed the United States-backed radicalisation movements during the Cold War era for the troubles facing South Asia and West Asia-North Africa. The fallout of radicalisation has been long term and has surrounded the entire region and spread to Iraq and Syria, he said.

"Pakistain is paying a price of the radicalisation process that began in the anti-Soviet jihad. Just last week, some of the best educated people of Pakistain died in an attack in Quetta. We therefore are appealing to brothers in Pakistain so that we can have civilised relationship and show that religion is for good purposes," Karzai said.

Posted by:Fred

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