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U.S. Agenda Is Not Stability of Afghanistan: Hamid Karzai
Afghan former President, Hamid Karzai says the United States agenda is not for the stability of Afghanistan, if it was, now we witnessed a secure Afghanistan with less extremism.
“The U.S. agenda is not the stability of Afghanistan. Had that been the agenda, Afghanistan would has been stable by now. The agenda as it is showing now was not to fight extremism effectively. Had that been the agenda, 15 years on wars, we would have been more secure and there would have been less extremism in Afghanistan. While the U.S had its presence in Afghanistan, we saw the growth of Daesh,” Afghan Ex-President, Hamid Karzai said.
Karzai accepts the security situation is deteriorating in Afghanistan and calls U.S. flawed and misplaced operations under the name of fighting terrorism it the main reason for it.
” Unfortunately, the security situation in Afghanistan is deteriorating. For a number of reasons, primarily the United States that came in the name of providing security to Afghanistan and in the name of campaigning against terrorism. It did not concentrate on what it should have done. 14 years were spent, rather than focusing on sanctuaries and focusing on the training grounds. They focused on bombing Afghan villages and hurting Afghan people, putting Afghans in prison,” Karzai said.
According to the former president, Afghan security forces have been poorly equipped and trained and fight against terrorism has not carried out with a regional and global strategy.
” Poor training, poor equipment and the question of sanctuaries outside Afghanistan. US came to Afghanistan for the purpose to launch a campaign against extremism and terrorism, that purpose was not worked for, that needed a whole strategy, the strategy of cooperation in the region, addressing the sanctuaries, financial resources coming to terrorists, building Afghan state capacity, building the Afghan economy and seeking cooperation from the region in this campaign. The U.S. concentrated on promoting an interest on agenda that run against the fight against terrorism,” he said.
Expressing gratitude from the initial good works of the US and its money spent in Afghanistan, Karzai said “we cannot deny the fact that there are more terrorism and extremism in Afghanistan and in the region.”
“What I am trying to say is that someone is training and equipping and financing these terrorist forces. Who is that someone? It is the job of the United States as they have claimed to be fighting extremism. How come the more they fight extremism, the more there is of extremism. so there is something wrong. If we go back a little into the past, the United States and its allies used extremism as a tool against the former Soviet Union,” Karzai noted.
He further added that the United States honestly end the war in Afghanistan in cooperation with Russia, Iran, China, India and Pakistan.
A tripartite meeting between the delegations of Afghanistan, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan was held in Kabul with the aim of connecting North Asia to South Asia and reducing transit and transportation costs among these three countries, the Ministry of Trade and Commerce said in a statement.
In this meeting, an agreement was reached on the creation of a joint technical committee to continue the talks.
This tripartite meeting was held under the leadership of Nooruddin Azizi, the Acting Minister of Industry and Commerce, Vice President of Turkmenistan and Srik Zhumangarin, the Deputy Prime Minister of Kazakhstan.
Earlier, a bilateral meeting was held between the delegation of the Islamic Emirate and Turkmenistan. The ministry of commerce said the participants of the meeting discussed the construction of a large joint logistics center in Torghondi, the trilateral transit agreement between the IEA, Turkmenistan, and Kazakhstan, the expansion of Afghanistan’s railway, solving issues related to Afghan transit and export goods, and a number of other commercial issues.
Acting Minister of National Defense Mohammad Yaqub Mujahid has said that no destructive groups including Daesh have physical presence in Afghanistan, adding the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) will not allow anyone to pose threat to any country in the region from the Afghan soil.
Mujahid made the remarks in a meeting with a delegation from Malaysia in Kabul on Thursday.
According to a statement released by the Ministry of Defense, Mujahid highlighted Malaysia’s “good treatment” of Afghan refugees and its long-standing relations with Afghanistan, and said that Malaysia is a powerful Islamic country and visits should increase.
He added that with the establishment of the Islamic Emirate, occupation and war ended in Afghanistan, and the country is fully secure.
Based on the statement, the Malaysian delegation called Afghanistan a friendly country and while emphasizing on comprehensive cooperation, it assured that what they have seen in Afghanistan will be shared with the authorities of their country.
The European Union signed an agreement worth 17 million euros with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) to improve access to basic services, increased economic opportunities and protection for Afghans on the move and their host communities in Afghanistan.
The needs of women and girls are a particular focus of the programme, EU said in a statement released on Thursday.
The statement noted that from January 2023 until April 2024, over 1.5 million Afghans returned from Pakistan and Iran.
“I am deeply moved by the hardship returnees face when being deported to Afghanistan. In a country suffering from poverty and climate change, and in a city that just saw devastating earthquakes, this truly is a crisis within a crisis.”, said Peteris Ustubs, Director for the Middle East, Asia and Pacific of the European Commission’s Department for International Partnerships during the signing ceremony at the IOM transit centre in Herat.
Raffaella Iodice, EU Chargée d’Affaires a.i. to Afghanistan, added “The solidarity of the Afghan people towards their brothers and sisters is an inspiration. We must assure that communities hosting and helping new arrivals are supported. The partnership with IOM ensures access to essential services and provides protection for Afghan returnees and their host communities. As women and girls can be particularly affected, we make sure that all members of society can benefit”.
“IOM’s continued partnership with the EU has been critical in enabling our teams to reach hundreds of thousands of Afghan returnees and other vulnerable communities in the country”, said IOM Afghanistan Chief of Mission, Maria Moita. “Thanks to this renewed commitment, we will be able to focus on addressing the immense challenges in the areas of return and contribute to reintegration, social cohesion, and longer-term solutions for those communities.”
This additional contribution is part of a 5-year programme that is being implemented across Afghanistan and in four countries in the region. It builds on the EU’s previous support to IOM to improve the wellbeing of Afghans forced to return to the country, EU said.
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