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Afghanistan: Karzai urges Afghans to return home, calls Taliban his ‘brothers’
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KABUL, 04 December 2021, (TON): Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai called the Taliban “brothers” and said “he had good exchanges with the group on many issues.”
Karzai, who was the president of Afghanistan between 2001 and 2014 and waged war against the Taliban, said “I see the Taliban very much as brothers and I see all other Afghans as brothers.”
He told the British broadcaster “the country now needs to come together.”
“We are a people. We are a nation. All Afghans have suffered.”
Karzai expressed optimism that women and girls would soon be able to return to schools, universities and the workplace, from which they are currently banned by the interim Taliban government.
After discussing the issue with the Taliban leaders, Karzai claimed “they agree with us, understand it and say it will happen” though he did not give a date.
The former president also called on Afghans, who fled abroad as the Taliban took control of the country in August, to return home and help rebuild Afghanistan.
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