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Karzai’s Popularity Slips in Afghanistan

Started by washingtonindependent · 9 months ago

Talking with Afghans in a recent two-week trip through Afghanistan revealed a populace deeply unhappy with corruption in their government. ... Continue reading »

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  • "an obscure lieutenant of the deceased anti-Taliban warrior, Ahmed Shah Massoud"

    Come on...You should try to learn Afghanistan history: Karzai was a representative of the "Jabbah e Melli", a pashto party held by Mojaddedi. He was the representative of the party in Pakistan during the soviet occupation of Afghanistan. Then, he held briefly a post in the government of Rabbani (where Massoud was defense minister), but withdraw, and in 1994, at the very beginning of the taleban movement, he even gave them some money ($50 000?). But he said that he saw at the end of the year that they were puppets from pakistani secret services, and decided not to help them anymore.

    He was never a lieutenant of Massoud. This is not some kind of Holywood movie like the one about Charlie Wilson. We're in the reality, a sad reality for afghans.

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