Abdullah warns against Karzai plan

Abdullah slams Karzai's Taliban peace plan
The man who claims to have been robbed of Afghanistan's presidency in last August's election , Abdullah Abdullah, has slammed President Hamid Karzai's drive for Reconciliation with the Taliban on a visit to Paris. Karzai's peace-at-any-price plan is "very vague", Abdullah says. “I don’t Think that they know what they are talking about,” he told RFI at a conference at Paris Think-tank Ifri. “Sometimes they give the perception that if everything is being done in...

Afghanistan: Hamid Karzai's rival warns him not to cut deals with Taliban
Hamid Karzai's internationally funded scheme to lure Taliban fighters with land and jobs will undermine Democracy in Afghanistan and alienate the peaceful population, his presidential rival Abdullah Abdullah has claimed.

Botched attack by Nato kills 27 civilians
A bungled airstrike in Afghanistan has dealt NATO's effort to woo hearts and minds the third such blow in a week, with Kabul claiming the bombing killed 27 civilians, including women and children. Officials in the Afghan government said NATO planes attacked a convoy of three minibuses carrying 42 people, all civilians, in the mountainous province of Uruzgan on Sunday night, after mistaking them for Taliban Insurgents preparing to attack NATO troops. President Hamid Karzai's cabinet condemned...

Taliban reject renewed Karzai call for peace
Kabul (Reuters) - Afghanistan's Taliban on Sunday rejected President Hamid Karzai's latest call for peace, despite pressure from a NATO offensive and the capture of its number 2. Karzai renewed his appeal in parliament on Saturday for the Taliban to accept his peace proposal. At a conference on Afghanistan in London in January, donor nations backed his plans for peace talks with those Militants who renounce violence and pledged hundreds of millions of dollars to persuade fighters to lay down...

Karzai ‘Wins’ Runoff Elections By Default
ChiiFen Hiu When Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai agreed to a Runoff election due to massive fraud allegations concerning the August 20th Presidential Elections, it seemed as though a constructive step was being taken towards Afghanistan’s new Democracy. However, less than a week before the November 7th Runoff Elections were supposed to take place, the main opposition party leader, Abdullah Abdullah, announced his withdrawal, spurring great dismay amongst his supporters. He told...

Airstrike is said to have killed 27 civilians in Afghanistan
Kabul — An airstrike launched Sunday by U.S. Special Forces helicopters against what international troops believed to be a group of Insurgents ended up killing as many as 27 civilians in the worst such case since at least September, Afghan officials said Monday. "The repeated killing of civilians by NATO Forces is unjustifiable," President Hamid Karzai's Cabinet said in a statement. "We strongly condemn it." The Special Forces helicopters were hunting for Insurgents who had escaped the...

Afghan president renews peace calls to Taliban
Kabul (Reuters) – Afghan President Hamid Karzai renewed his call on Saturday for the Taliban to accept his peace proposal, after a NATO offensive and the capture of a top Taliban leader raised hopes the group could be more flexible. At a conference on Afghanistan in London in January, donor nations backed Karzai's plans for peace talks and pledged hundreds of millions of dollars to persuade fighters to lay down weapons. Taliban Insurgents have repeatedly turned down his offer,...

Afghan leader urges coalition troops to curb civilian deaths
Reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan - Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Saturday made an emotional appeal for coalition troops to strive to prevent civilian deaths as a major offensive in the south by U.S., British and Afghan troops entered its second week. The president's remarks, in a speech to Afghan lawmakers, came as Western Military officials announced that troops involved in the fighting for the Taliban stronghold of Marja had shot and killed an Afghan man a day earlier, mistakenly...

Taliban reject renewed Karzai call for peace
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