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Just read this on the BBC News website - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-24433433
President Hamid Karzai has criticised Nato for failing to bring stability to Afghanistan in over a decade there.
"On the security front the entire Nato exercise was one that caused Afghanistan a lot of suffering, a lot of loss of life, and no gains because the country is not secure," he said.
He said Nato had incorrectly focused the fight on Afghan villages rather than Taliban safe havens in Pakistan.
Mr Karzai has just six months remaining in office until a successor is elected.
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"I am not happy to say that there is partial security. That's not what we are seeking. What we wanted was absolute security and a clear-cut war against terrorism," Mr Karzai said of the Nato campaign.
Speaking in one of his last major interviews before stepping down, he told BBC Newsnight that his priority now is to bring peace and security to Afghanistan, including a power-sharing deal with the Taliban.
He said that his government was actively engaged in talks with the hardline Islamic group with this aim in mind:
"They are Afghans. Where the Afghan president, the Afghan government can appoint the Taliban to a government job they are welcome," he said. "But where it's the Afghan people appointing people through elections to state organs then the Taliban should come and participate in elections."
Try telling that to the hundreds of foreign servicemen who have lost their lives to help get his troubled country out of deep shit. It is not surprising that the Taliban is never defeated when there are people like him who come out with shit like that. Nato should pull out and let the Afghan army reunite with their Taliban friends.
President Hamid Karzai has criticised Nato for failing to bring stability to Afghanistan in over a decade there.
"On the security front the entire Nato exercise was one that caused Afghanistan a lot of suffering, a lot of loss of life, and no gains because the country is not secure," he said.
He said Nato had incorrectly focused the fight on Afghan villages rather than Taliban safe havens in Pakistan.
Mr Karzai has just six months remaining in office until a successor is elected.
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The return of the Taliban will not undermine progress. This country needs to have peace”
Hamid Karzai
"I am not happy to say that there is partial security. That's not what we are seeking. What we wanted was absolute security and a clear-cut war against terrorism," Mr Karzai said of the Nato campaign.
Speaking in one of his last major interviews before stepping down, he told BBC Newsnight that his priority now is to bring peace and security to Afghanistan, including a power-sharing deal with the Taliban.
He said that his government was actively engaged in talks with the hardline Islamic group with this aim in mind:
"They are Afghans. Where the Afghan president, the Afghan government can appoint the Taliban to a government job they are welcome," he said. "But where it's the Afghan people appointing people through elections to state organs then the Taliban should come and participate in elections."
Try telling that to the hundreds of foreign servicemen who have lost their lives to help get his troubled country out of deep shit. It is not surprising that the Taliban is never defeated when there are people like him who come out with shit like that. Nato should pull out and let the Afghan army reunite with their Taliban friends.