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Must read article here, out of context excerpts below:
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The recent hasty and secretive signing of an intelligence-sharing agreement with Pakistan has led former Afghan President Hamid Karzai to part ways with the incumbent Afghan leader, Ashraf Ghani.
The policies that Arg, the Afghan presidential palace in Kabul, is peddling with Islamabad -- particularly its dealings with the Pakistani military -- have caused a deep and unfortunate rupture between the current and former Afghan presidents.
This state of affairs is the result of months of disagreements over key national issues central to Afghanistan's sovereignty and national interests.
During Afghanistan's hard-fought, disputed elections last year, most presidential hopefuls met with Karzai. Ghani, in particular, assured him that if elected president "he will take all important initiatives after wide-ranging consultations."
During several long deliberations with Ghani, Karzai had made some specific suggestions about looking after core Afghan national interests. He told Ghani that if elected he should be extra vigilant in looking after "Afghan sovereignty, promoting and strengthening national unity, and maintaining an independent foreign policy."
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The former leader was emphatic in demanding that Ghani should pay utmost attention to "not concluding any agreement with Pakistan over Afghan sovereignty or the Durand Line issue."
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Karzai, too opposed, the deal. On May 19, he called Ghani for a "blunt and serious" conversation. He told the president that "intelligence cooperation with Pakistan and such deals are treason and a betrayal of the Afghan soil."
Ghani defended the deal, but Karzai raised several fundamental questions, such as, under this deal, which "separatists" are we supposed to jointly fight in Afghanistan and Pakistan? Who is behind this ongoing war in Afghanistan? How can be Afghanistan's enemy (the Pakistani military) become a friend, while our traditional ally (India) has now become an enemy?
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Despite decades of war, there has never been a separatist movement in Afghanistan. Most Afghans blame Pakistan for backing the Taliban and allied militants in the armed opposition.
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Ghani was surprised by the ferocity of Karzai's opposition and immediately investigated who had leaked the details of the intelligence deal to the former leader. He promptly fired two deputies of the NDS director and appointed loyalists instead. This has paved the way to politicize a national institution, which might open it to manipulation by the ISI.
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On May 20, when Karzai's office was preparing a statement to call for scrapping the NDS-ISI deal, the U.S. embassy in Kabul opposed the statement. American diplomats knew about the statement before it was issued and scrambled to assure Karzai's staff that "the deal will be changed and edited."
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The recent hasty and secretive signing of an intelligence-sharing agreement with Pakistan has led former Afghan President Hamid Karzai to part ways with the incumbent Afghan leader, Ashraf Ghani.
The policies that Arg, the Afghan presidential palace in Kabul, is peddling with Islamabad -- particularly its dealings with the Pakistani military -- have caused a deep and unfortunate rupture between the current and former Afghan presidents.
This state of affairs is the result of months of disagreements over key national issues central to Afghanistan's sovereignty and national interests.
During Afghanistan's hard-fought, disputed elections last year, most presidential hopefuls met with Karzai. Ghani, in particular, assured him that if elected president "he will take all important initiatives after wide-ranging consultations."
During several long deliberations with Ghani, Karzai had made some specific suggestions about looking after core Afghan national interests. He told Ghani that if elected he should be extra vigilant in looking after "Afghan sovereignty, promoting and strengthening national unity, and maintaining an independent foreign policy."
...
The former leader was emphatic in demanding that Ghani should pay utmost attention to "not concluding any agreement with Pakistan over Afghan sovereignty or the Durand Line issue."
...
Karzai, too opposed, the deal. On May 19, he called Ghani for a "blunt and serious" conversation. He told the president that "intelligence cooperation with Pakistan and such deals are treason and a betrayal of the Afghan soil."
Ghani defended the deal, but Karzai raised several fundamental questions, such as, under this deal, which "separatists" are we supposed to jointly fight in Afghanistan and Pakistan? Who is behind this ongoing war in Afghanistan? How can be Afghanistan's enemy (the Pakistani military) become a friend, while our traditional ally (India) has now become an enemy?
...
Despite decades of war, there has never been a separatist movement in Afghanistan. Most Afghans blame Pakistan for backing the Taliban and allied militants in the armed opposition.
...
Ghani was surprised by the ferocity of Karzai's opposition and immediately investigated who had leaked the details of the intelligence deal to the former leader. He promptly fired two deputies of the NDS director and appointed loyalists instead. This has paved the way to politicize a national institution, which might open it to manipulation by the ISI.
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On May 20, when Karzai's office was preparing a statement to call for scrapping the NDS-ISI deal, the U.S. embassy in Kabul opposed the statement. American diplomats knew about the statement before it was issued and scrambled to assure Karzai's staff that "the deal will be changed and edited."
. Khair Jahan tuk bat rahi Afghanistan ki hum ne hamesha Afghanio ko apna Bhai Sumjha, mager humay kabhi uska sila nahi mila, Ab App apne ko Raw Ka Agent bola ya CIA ka mere nazdeek sirf 2 he tarhan k group hai Ya tu Pakistani ya Nahi.
