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...
said Tuesday that he had expressed "deep concerns" to his Pak counterpart about deadly rocket attacks launched across the Taliban-troubled border.
Around 200 Afghans protested in the capital on Saturday against the attacks which have fanned tensions between the neighbours at a time of flagging Western support for the long war with the Taliban.
Speaking at a presser in Kabul alongside British Prime Minister David Cameron
... has stated that he is
certainly a big Thatcher fan, but I don't know whether that makes me a Thatcherite,which means he's not. Since he is
not deeply ideologicalhe lacks core principles and is easily led. He has been described as
certainly not a Pitt, Elder or Younger,but he does wear a nice suit so maybe he's Beau Brummel ...
, the Afghan leader said he had raised the sensitive issue with Pakistain President
Asif Ali President Ten PercentZardari
... sticky-fingered husband of the late Benazir Bhutto ...
at a recent meeting.
"The shells and artillery fired from Pakistain territory to Afghanistan have led to the death and injury of a number of our citizens," Karzai said.
"I have been very clear on the position of Afghanistan... We expressed the deep concerns of the people of Afghanistan and asked for an immediate stop to the shelling from Pak territory." Karzai said Afghanistan would not retaliate.
Pakistain disputes the Afghan version of events and says it has not fired deliberately on its neighbour's territory and says it is contending with Taliban attacks from Afghanistan.
The Pakistain army admits only that its security forces may have fired a few accidental rounds into Afghanistan while pursuing Orcs and similar vermin across the porous 2,400 kilometre (1,500 mile) border.
Pakistain said Monday that dozens of Taliban infiltrated from Afghanistan to attack a check post, killing one soldier.
There are Taliban strongholds on both sides of the border, but Afghan and US officials want Pakistain to do more to eradicate krazed killer sanctuaries in its semi-autonomous tribal belt that is used to launch attacks in Afghanistan.
Cameron, appearing with Karzai, struck a diplomatic note over the issue and said Britannia backed an improvement in Afghanistan-Pakistain relations.
"Now is the time for Pakistain and Afghanistan to sit and meet and talk on how we are to ensure what we need to do," he told news hounds.