[Tolo News] 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...
on Wednesday said if the Taliban want the foreign forces to leave Afghanistan then they should let students to attend their schools.
Speaking at the graduation ceremony of some 2,000 teachers President Karzai welcomed the latest statement by Mullah Mohammad Omar backing education in Afghanistan.
In a recent latest statement Mullah Omar the leader of the Taliban denied the group's role in the attacks on common locations and school torching in the country.
Mullah Omar also urged the Taliban to stop preventing students from going to schools.
"I want to hear from the Taliban once more to make sure they have nothing to do with teachers, education and health," said President Karzai.
If the Taliban keep attacking on Afghan schools, it would mean they support a long-term presence of foreign forces in the country, President Karzai said.
"We lack 47,000 teachers, while each year 700,000 new students join the schools," Afghan Education Minister Ghulam Farouq Wardak said.
There are around 8.3 million students in Afghanistan which requires more than 200,000 instructors, but the number of teachers nationwide reaches 190,000, according to the statistics provided by education ministry.
Education officials say efforts are on the ground to reopen the schools closed in areas highly under the Taliban influence.