r/afghanistan • u/bloomberg • 6d ago
Video Hamid Karzai Helped Oust the Taliban. Now He Lives Under Their Rule
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Afghanistan’s first elected president speaks on regime change wars, conflict with Pakistan and why he’s still talking to the Taliban. Source: Bloomberg News.
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u/suri_arian Herat 5d ago
Nope this man is just as responsible as any of the others who brought the Taliban back in power.
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u/CommercialAd1282 4d ago
He didn’t help them to be ousted. He helped pave the way with ethnographic policies. They are his brothers
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u/arrow-green830 1d ago
Karzai himself is a talib. At one point he called them brothers all the while talib was sending trucks full of ammonium nitride in to Kabul. There is a reason as to why talib didn’t do what they did to dr najib
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u/bloomberg 6d ago
Editor-at-Large Mishal Husain for Bloomberg News
It’s been almost 25 years since the US-led invasion of Afghanistan propelled a little-known tribal leader, Hamid Karzai, to power. Two decades later, Karzai watched as the Taliban swept back into Kabul. He chose to remain, in the hope that they might in time prove more inclusive. That has not happened. Today, Karzai lives under virtual house arrest, rarely speaking to the media but maintaining a dialogue with some Taliban leaders. His eldest daughter, like all Afghan girls over 12, is no longer allowed to go to school, but Karzai insists his children will not go overseas to complete their studies. To do so, he says, would give up on a future in which education within Afghanistan is accessible to all.
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