Word: karzai
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...argue, for example, that what happens in Iraq isn't going to have an impact on Musharraf in Pakistan or Karzai in Afghanistan. The key to a workable strategy in that part of the world against al-Qaeda, and the Islamic radicals that we're at war with, is to get the locals into the fight. They've got to take responsibility for their own governments, for their own security. That's what's happened in Afghanistan and in Pakistan, where having them working with us in the intelligence arena to capture and kill al-Qaeda has been absolutely essential...
...years ago, six years ago, a safe haven for al Qaeda; a location for training camps that trained 20,000 terrorists in the late '90s, that situation has significantly improved -- still got a lot of work to do; still got significant problems there. But the Taliban regime is gone. Karzai is in. There's been democratic elections, a new parliament sworn in, new constitution...
Pervez Musharraf knows how to make a splash with a book tour. In the week that his new memoir, In the Line of Fire, hit stores, the Pakistani President feuded publicly with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, had tea and Twinkies on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, ate dinner at the White House, and was greeted in London by Tony Blair and a leaked British defense document accusing Pakistan's intelligence agency of having ties to al-Qaeda. Somehow, he also managed to squeeze in a chat with TIME in New York...
...Secretary-General's report says that the foot soldiers of the insurgency are Afghans. I've been saying that for the last three months, even though President Karzai and everyone else says they're from Pakistan. Today Karzai said [Taliban leader] Mullah Omar is in Quetta. This is a ridiculous assertion. Mullah Omar has never come to Quetta. Not since 1995 has he come to Pakistan. He is based in Kandahar and is still there...
...When Musharraf's government, earlier this month, concluded a non-aggression pact with local pro-Taliban militants in the tribal province of Waziristan - long considered a likely hiding place of Osama bin Laden and other key al-Qaeda leaders - NATO leaders were as furious as Karzai. Reports that the deal had been brokered in part by exiled Taliban leader Mullah Omar only deepened the sense that Pakistan had, in effect, made a separate peace with the Taliban. Key NATO countries whose troops are fighting a hot war with the Taliban in southern Afghanistan - Britain, Canada, Australia and the Netherlands - actually...