More from Hamid Karzai

  1. Let me tell the world that we Afghans today stand with full dignity and declare to the world that we are rising from the ashes of invasion …
  2. We should deal with terrorism wherever it occurs. Wherever they are trained.
  3. Not very far from here stood two towers that symbolized freedom, prosperity and progress. Half way around the globe stood two magnificent B…
  4. On behalf of the Afghan people, I pledge today that we will be a dependable asset to the security of the region and of the world.
  5. Democracy as a system of government may indeed be unprecedented in Afghanistan, but democracy as a way of life, a set of principles and val…
  6. Any effort to divide Afghanistan ethnically or weaken it will create exactly the same things in the neighboring countries. All the countrie…
  7. We Afghans have the right to stand with full dignity and self-confidence in front of the people of the world and say that this immortal pho…
  8. The past is gone. We were unaware: The Soviets came, invaded us and we went out of Afghanistan to defend our country. We defended our count…

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