It would be an inappropriately weak word to use if we say that Hamid Karzai, the president of Afghanistan, should ‘resign.’
Hamid came into power through an election in Dec 2004 in a war ravaged country of Afghanistan. Before that he was an interim government head placed by the invading coalition forces.
Do this day Hamid Karzai has done nothing that has actually benefited the country and the region. Except signing a few treaties and visiting a few neighboring countries, he has only managed to enrage the bordering countries with his rants that are actually his country’s internal problems.
The recent unresolved abduction of the 23 South Korean (2 of whom have already been slain) aid workers by Taleban forces in Afghanistan stands to be his toughest test. Indicative of the unruliness in the country that has hosted foreign forces since the invasion by the coalition forces in 2002, and of his poor statesmanship to bring to the table these Taleban forces that he and his allies claimed to have been eliminated long ago. Rising problems (social and political) are another story that need not be touched in this post.
Taleban today are more stronger in their motives than ever before and thanks to his benevolence they have regrouped in the loosely controlled regions of Pakistan, that are a shared tribal area between Afghanistan and Pakistan.
The Karzai-Bush meetings will have as a their main agenda then abduction of the South Koreans and the action Karzai has failed to take against Taleban resurgence in an around Kabul and neighboring provinces. His inability to be a leader and even less a statesman has shown over time. But with the rising pressure on him to show some results it is time for him to call it a day, he never was a person to take up this task in the first place.
With the presidential elections round the corner, it is best for him to step aside, and admit defeat at a task he should have easily undertaken being in the Afghan bureaucracy for such a long time. It is time for someone new step up to the plate.
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Nauman // August 7, 2007 at 12:56 am
Nice writeup. I think it is time for both Musharraf and Karzai to call it a day and leave the affairs of state to someone more capable and legitimate. But our problems are even worse than they prima facie look. The war on terror unleashed by USA is much more harmful to us than terrorism is to the West. In one of his recent talk show on Aaj TV Talat Hussain concluded that without doubt religious extremism and militancy is a big threat to our society but even bigger threat is our dissensions. The people of Pakistan are getting polarized due to Musharraf Administration’s front-line ally status in this war on terror. Pathans of Sarhad and FATA (Taliban) consider the federal administration to be nothing more than the puppet of imperialists. This perception poses a serious challenge to the territorial integrity of Pakistan. We badly need a capable and legitimate leader who can save us from this abyss. But neither Musharraf nor Benazir and Nawaz Sharif have a character to take a firm stance against imperialists. We need a Messiah but it sounds neo-conservative
phil // August 7, 2007 at 7:14 am
LOL and I agree! Mushy needs to go easy on the pedal, and bring the Taleban to he table. Accept them as a legitimate part of the solution. This, as a matter of fact, has to be done by anyone who comes into, or stays in power.
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