MOSCOW – Speaking at the 7th Moscow Conference on International Security onWednesday, Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai said: “The underlyingstrategic assumption was that the US and its allies would be able to handlethe problem and succeed and that they were sincere in their mission. Thathope has been dashed to the ground.”
He said: “Seventeen years on, Afghanistan is neither peaceful nor safe.More terrorist groups have sprung up with clear signs that organizedsupport is nurturing there.
Otherwise, Daesh would have not emerged in our country. It has been notedthat this group, Daesh, has been supplied and strengthened during thefull-scale military and intelligence presence of the United States and NATOin the name of the war on terrorism in my country Afghanistan.”
However, the CEO’s spokesman Jawed Faisal dismissed these claims and said:“We have fought against all (insurgent) groups including Daesh, Taliban andHaqqani (network). We eliminated Daesh’s leadership in Afghanistan, wecleared the areas in which they (Daesh fighters) were operating.”*Afghan government on Thursday rejected claims by former president HamidKarzai that insurgent groups, especially Daesh, are being bolstered by thepresence of foreign forces in Afghanistan.*
The CEO’s Office said any doubt or suspicion in the fight against Daesh “isnot correct” and that all insurgent groups have been and are still beingtargeted in the fight against terror by the Afghan government, the UnitedStates and NATO.
Senior military officials from countries in the region, including Pakistanand Iran, attended the Moscow Conference.
“Mr Karzai has a cold relation with the United States; therefore, at everyceremony, he tries to talk in a way to show that Americans are oppressingAfghanistan and that they are betraying the people of Afghanistan,” GhulamFarooq Majroh, an MP, told TOLOnews.
This is not the first time that the former president has criticized theUS’s mission in Afghanistan.