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...
insisted on Wednesday that Afghanistan would not allow itself to become the battleground in a proxy war between India and Pakistain after the imminent departure of US-led troops.
Speaking in New Delhi, Karzai angrily rejected warnings by his one-time counterpart in Islamabad
Pervez PervMusharraf
... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ...
that India and Pakistain could coopt allies among Afghanistan's main ethnic groups to effectively wage war against each other, saying such claims were "hurtful".
"Of course Afghanistan will not allow a proxy war between Pakistain and India," Karzai said in an address to a thinktank, saying he was "sure" India wouldn't allow such a scenario either.