Abdullah Slams Karzai’s Ambiguous Comments

President Karzai’s ambiguous comments will face Afghanistan with a lot of challenges, Opposition Leader Abdullah Abdullah said on Thursday.
Leader of the Change and Hope Coalitin Dr Abdullah Abdullah criticises President Hamid Karzai of hesitating to condemn the Taliban and says President Karzai’s ambiguous comments do not suit a modern leadership.
Pointing to the experiences of the Middle East leaders, Abdullah said leaders who do not address demands of their nations and are totalitarian will face similar fates.
Calling for political change in Afghanistan, Mr Abdullah urges the government to involve Afghans in major political decisions.
Afghan President Karzai has recently said that the Taliban leadership should speak up and make it clear if the one (Zabihullah Mujahid) who introduces himself as its spokesman is really representing them.
“If Zabihullah Mujahid is not representing the Taliban, then the Taliban leadership should speak out and say he doesn’t represent them,” said Mr Karzai at a recent press conference in Kabul.
Zabihullah Mujahid is the one regularly claiming responsibility for bombings and other insurgent attacks on behalf of the Taliban.
“It means if someone else appears as Taliban’s spokesman and the Taliban leadership suddenly claim that Zabihullah Mujahid is not representing the group, then President Karzai would think that the Taliban have committed no crimes,” Dr Abdullah told a news conference on Thursday.
The Afghan people have faced more challenges during the recent years, which Dr Abdullah believes are caused by people’s marginalisation and lack of respect to the country’s laws.
But an Afghan writer and researcher, Akram Arefi, is of the opinion that Afghanistan has never experience freedom and democracy.
“If we look back at history, Afghans have never witnessed a system based on freedom and democracy,” said Mr Arefi.