President of Afghanistan from 2001 to 2014
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He led the US-backed uprising against the Taliban in 2001, became Afghanistan's first elected president, then spent his later years in office calling the Taliban his brothers and warning Washington was fighting the wrong enemy. After the Taliban returned in 2021, Karzai said he'd invited them into Kabul himself.
Born in Kandahar in 1957, Karzai studied in Kabul and India before spending the Soviet–Afghan War raising funds for the mujahideen in Pakistan. After his father's 1999 assassination, he inherited leadership of the Popalzai tribe. When the US invasion began in October 2001, he rallied Pashtun tribes around Kandahar against the Taliban. By December, Afghan leaders in Germany selected him to chair the Interim Administration. The 2002 loya jirga made him interim president; he won the 2004 and 2009 elections outright, serving until 2014. Early on he built alliances across Afghanistan's ethnic divid…
Sourced, dated quotes from Hamid Karzai
On the security front the entire Nato exercise was one that caused Afghanistan a lot of suffering, a lot of loss of life, and no gains because the country is not secure.
Terrorism sees, in the prosperity of the Afghan people, its ultimate defeat.
My problem is that I am perhaps too much of a democrat for this time of the country's life. If you need a dictator, then go to the Afghan people. Let them elect a dictator.
Politics without morality is close to sin.
There is no doubt that people are angry.
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