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| Parliament Criticises Faizi Over 'Aimless' Nato Comment |
| 2013-03-21 |
| [Tolo News] Afghan politicians Wednesday criticised presidential front man Aimal Faizi for calling the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... mission in Afghanistan "illogical and aimless", warning that such comments threaten the stability of the country. The politicians said that the views coming from 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... 's representative should be clarified as a personal idea of Karzai and not the views of the Afghan people. "Such speeches will cause chaos in the country," MP Mohammad Naeem Lalai Ahmadzai said in Wednesday's parliamentary session. "The president is trying to remain in power by such statements. It is his personal idea, not the people's." Fatima Aziz, an MP from northern Kunduz province, suggested the statement was too late considering NATO had been in Afghanistan more than a decade. "Why didn't the government say ten years ago that the NATO mission is illogical and aimless? The NATO mission was not a secret," she said. "The comment will damage Afghanistan." Lawmakers said they believed that Afghanistan needed the cooperation of the US and the presence of the foreign forces. "Afghanistan's war is being planned by neighboring countries especially in Pakistain. And the country [Afghanistan] has serious need for international cooperation and the presence of foreign forces because the war has not ended in the country," member of the parliamentary international committee Noor Akbari said. MPs said that main cause of war in Afghanistan is the intervention of the regional countries especially Pakistain where gunnies are being funded and equipped to be bad boys, creating more security challenges and thereby the need for foreign forces to assist until the Afghan forces can defend the country. Faizi said Tuesday that the NATO-led military operation was "illogical and aimless", the latest public criticism of the foreign forces after Karzai's recent broadsides against the US. |
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