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#WorldAtFive 🇦🇫 : Afghanistan’s former president Hamid Karzai has described the 20-year Nato campaign in his country as a “military failure” that has allowed terrorism and extremism to flourish there, as the last US-led troops leave the war thetimes.co.uk/article/you-ha…
“The country is in shock, in such dire, dire straits,” Karzai told The Times at his home in Kabul. “Look at the scene. We are in shambles. The country is in conflict. There is immense suffering for the Afghan people."
Karzai, a politician and Pashtun tribal leader from Kandahar who led Afghanistan for nine years as president, continues to wield considerable influence both inside the country and abroad. Image
The 63-year-old is playing a key role in a British initiative to head off total civil war in Afghanistan following the failure of the US-Taliban peace talks in Doha, Qatar.

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