Hamid Karzai, the then so-called president, on the 13th of Aqrab 1391 in the solar calendar, which corresponds to the 3rd of November 2012, met on Saturday with officials from various print, audio, and visual media, analysts of political, military, social, and economic affairs.
Karzai said: You can freely criticize my government and state institutions! But the people’s psyche should not be harm
Karzai said: “Listen carefully, on the day of the 2009 elections, Kaida came and wanted to meet with me alone. The foreigners did not want the election results to be announced. Kaida was a good man, but he was under pressure from the US and others. He wanted to talk alone, but I refused and told him that either Spanta, who was the foreign minister at that time, or Zalmay Rasol, who was the national security advisor, should be present. Zalmay Rasol was present. Kaida said he had a message from the US, UK, and France, and that was: You have either won 51.7% of the votes or 49.6%.”
He adds: “I told him, if the votes were counted, how is it possible to have two different numbers? Kay Aida said: It depends on you whether you agree with the West or not? And do you accept the presidential election? If you accept it, 51.7% of the votes are yours; if you don’t accept it, 49.6% will be announced. I told him: I don’t accept this decision, and the results were announced.”
Karzai later adds, “I told him: ‘Two days later, Kai Aida came again and said that the elections had gone to a second round, but the UN Secretary-General was on his way If you accept the position of Chief Executive and start working with three people (he mentioned two names, but the third was not revealed), you will be declared successful.’ I also rejected this proposal and told him that it was against the constitution. Kay Aida said, ‘What does a poor country like Afghanistan care about the constitution?'”
The above is a narrative from a time when federal and democratic aspirants ruled over Afghanistan for twenty years. Those who brought them into existence, those who instilled the constitution in them, those who brought them into the political arena, now say to them: “What does a poor country like Afghanistan need a constitution for?”
For twenty years, Afghanistan was a center of experimentation. The Americans wanted Afghanistan to become a democratic republic, so they brought along savage, bloodthirsty warlords to create a system that would protect Washington from this place, ensuring and guaranteeing American interests. But these people were not even able to save themselves because the faithful and mujahideen people of Afghanistan stood firm against them. The people fought for twenty years to prevent the country from being poisoned by democracy. The result was that finally, the master who had laid the stone of a democratic system here scolded his puppet, the so-called king, saying: “What does a poor country like Afghanistan do with a constitution?”
These deceitful and self-serving policies cannot be anything other than the exploitation of the blood of the people of Afghanistan. Now, Latif Pedram is trying to create a media uproar while still being fed by another country. He draws maps on the snow with a few unemployed, disgraced, and expelled individuals, chanting slogans like “Afghanistan must become federal,” “Afghanistan is Khorasan!” and “Every nation should have its own province.” This virtual group has drafted a constitution for the federalists, for a nation that has spent two decades in sorrow due to the followers of these misguided slogans, and still offers the same gift to the nation.
Afghanistan was not built by the entire West; Westerners, with their new version, brought more than forty countries with soldiers, cannons, planes, and tanks to Afghanistan. However, after twenty years, with the departure of the last invader, the country returned to its original state. Today, Padram and federalists propose a version of division to these proud, united, and indivisible nations. The federalists are delusional; they have forgotten that, including the invaders, many countries supported the division of Afghanistan, but their dream was not fulfilled.
But the federalists continue to mock the Afghan nation, sitting at the door of others, pouring salt on the wounds of this tormented nation with foreign agendas. However, the united Afghan nation will not allow anyone to fulfill the dreams of the disintegration-seeking countries and proxy groups.
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