Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai has adopted a conciliatory tone against the fundamentalist Islamist Taliban movement, saying in an interview with British public television, the BBC, that the recent exchanges with them were issues ».
Mr Karzai, the head of state from 2001 to 2014, when the war between foreign and Afghan troops and insurgents raged, assured that “I see the Taliban as brothers, I see all other Afghans as brothers”.
The country must unite, he insisted. “We are a people. We are a nation. “All Afghans have suffered.”
He is optimistic, he said, that women and girls will soon return to schools, universities, workplaces. The Taliban have denied them any access.
Mr Karzai claimed that Taliban leaders with whom he had discussed “agree with us, understand it and say it will happen”. He did not say when he thought the ban would be lifted.
The former president also urged Afghans fleeing the country as the Taliban regained power in the Southeast Asian country in August to return to help rebuild.
Asked if he had any message for US President Joe Biden and his government, Hamid Karzai said “they would do well to come and help the Afghan people”. The United States, its allies and the international community “must help Afghanistan rebuild, heal the wounds suffered by all sides,” he added.
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