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Weak Karzai Dependent on West: Aide
KABUL — Afghan President Hamid Karzai is a weak leader in a lose-lose situation, whose political survival counts on the presence of foreign troops in the country, a senior security advisor to Karzai said Sunday, June 3.
"If today the foreigners desert Afghanistan... then it will be seen for how many days the national army of Mr Karzai will resist?" Mohammad Qasim Fahim, the former Afghan defense minister and first deputy to Karzai, told local weekly Payame Mujahed in an interview excerpts of which were carried by Reuters.
"Nothing will remain stable even for a week."
Fahim, who was appointed by Karzai last year as his senior security adviser to help deal with a rise in Taliban attacks, has formed "a weak government with no program."
He blamed the West-backed leader for the awkward performance of his government.
"The basic problem of Mr Karzai, with regard to government's affairs, is lack of his management concerning the current situation of the country," he said.
Karzai, who headed the transitional administration set up when the US-led troops overthrew the Taliban regime in 2001, won a five-year term in Afghanistan's first presidential elections in October 2004.
Nearly six years after the advent of a US-backed government and ouster of Taliban, the country is still in chaos and underdeveloped.
In the capital Kabul, the majority of locals are living in slums, without central heating, electricity or running water.
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"Nothing will remain stable even for a week."
Fahim, who was appointed by Karzai last year as his senior security adviser to help deal with a rise in Taliban attacks, has formed "a weak government with no program."
He blamed the West-backed leader for the awkward performance of his government.
"The basic problem of Mr Karzai, with regard to government's affairs, is lack of his management concerning the current situation of the country," he said.
Karzai, who headed the transitional administration set up when the US-led troops overthrew the Taliban regime in 2001, won a five-year term in Afghanistan's first presidential elections in October 2004.
Nearly six years after the advent of a US-backed government and ouster of Taliban, the country is still in chaos and underdeveloped.
In the capital Kabul, the majority of locals are living in slums, without central heating, electricity or running water.
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Published: 03 June 2007
Prince Harry may yet fulfil his desire to serve in a war zone - in Afghanistan rather than Iraq. Last month, military chiefs decided almost at the last minute that Harry, third in line to the throne, could not go to Iraq with his regiment, the Blues and Royals. The Army Chief of Staff, General Sir Richard Dannatt, said the prince had been the target of specific threats, exposing "not only him, but also those around him, to a degree of risk that I now deem unacceptable".
The Blues and Royals are now deploying to Iraq without Cornet, or 2nd Lieutenant, Wales. According to reports last week, however, Army commanders are considering sending him to Afghanistan instead, where he might join a small group of fellow officers training the Afghan army.
But is Afghanistan any less dangerous? Last week two British soldiers were killed in Helmand province, where most of Britain's 6,500 troops are stationed. A third, who died the previous week, was named.
The most recent fatality, Cpl Mike Gilyeat, died in a helicopter crash which also killed the five-member American crew and a Canadian soldier, who like the Briton was operating as a combat photographer. Ominously, Nato has admitted that the twin-rotor Chinook might have been shot down by Taliban fire, which would be the first time this has happened since British forces arrived in Helmand a little over a year ago.
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http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article2609229.ece