Afghan ex-President Hamid Karzai has arrived in Dushanbe to discuss issues related to providing stability in Afghanistan.
On Wednesday November 13, Hamid Karzai met in Dushanbe with Tajik President Emomali Rahmon, according to the Tajik president’s official website.
Rahmon and Karzai reportedly discussed a broad range of issues related to bilateral relations between Tajikistan and Afghanistan, the current situation in Afghanistan and ways to support economic development and provide security and stability in this country.
They pointed to the necessity of using all available resources to maintain peace and stability in the region and combat terrorism and drug trafficking.
The two also discussed a number of international and regional issues being of mutual interest, the Tajik president’s official website said.
Hamid Karzai (born December 24, 1957) is an Afghan politician who was the President of Afghanistan from December 22, 2001 to September 29, 2014, originally as an interim leader and then as President for almost ten years, from December 7, 2004 to 2014. He comes from a politically active family; Karzai's father, uncle and grandfather were all active in Afghan politics and government. Karzai and his father before him, Abdul Ahad Karzai, were each head of the Popalzai tribe of the Durrani tribal confederation.
After the 2017 Nangarhar airstrike, Karzai called the current president Ashraf Ghani a traitor. In October 2017 Karzai stated that the U.S. uses the Islamic State (IS) extremist group as a tool in Afghanistan, aimed at destabilizing the whole region, urging the international community, in his words, to convince the U.S. that it needs to actually fight terrorism.
