Afghanistan- Archives - Intro

"If fornication should become widespread you should know that this has never happened without God sending new diseases to the people which their forbears didn't suffer from . If people should begin to cheat in weighing out goods then know that this has never happened without drought and famine befalling the people, and their rulers oppressing them. If people should withhold Zakat then you should realize that this has never happened without the rain being stopped from falling, and were it not for the animal's sake it would never rain again.

If people should break their covenant with God and His Messenger you should realize that this has never happened without God sending an enemy against them to take some of their possessions by force. If the leaders do not govern according to the Book of God, you should realize that this has never happened without God dividing them into groups and making them fight one another."

 KARZAI
Karzai was originally from Uruzgan and his Pashtun tribe Popalzai is inhabiting the region surrounding Kandahar. Hamid’s father Abdul Ahad Karzai acted as a parliamentarian during King Zahir Shah’s reign. Ahad Karzai was murdered in 1999, and the position of the tribal elder was inherited by Hamid. He accused the Taliban for his father’s murder. Hamid Karzai got his education in India. He acted as a deputy foreign minister in the Mujahid Government of Afghanistan in 1992. Karzai, however, quit the government in 1994 for internal disputes. Later the Taliban appointed Karzai as their ambassador to the UN, but Imtiaz Gul tells us Mullah Omar cancelled the nomination after hearing that Karzai did not have a beard.

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GUL AGHA
The governor of Kandahar, Gul Agha, has risen his profile and during the latest times he has started to advocate more clearly a Pashtun policy, also adopting a more critical stand on the United States. After the latest bombing that accidentally targeted a wedding party, Gul Agha demanded that the US should first get permission from the regional leaders for all their operations. He also started to gather a new alliance of South Afghanistan’s Pashtun commanders to be loyal to himself. Several governors of the provinces surrounding Kandahar have appeared good vassals in courting all criticism raised by Gul Agha.

President Karzai’s brother Ahmed Karzai is acting as the president’s representative in Kandahar, and has recently become a popular commentator. Some time ago Ahmed Karzai claimed that behind the local conflicts of southern Afghanistan lies General Fahim’s intrigues, aimed at harming the relations between Pashtuns and the US.