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| Hamid Karzai (Image: Wiki Commons) |
By Tamim Hamid
In a rare change of tone, former president Hamid Karzai on Sunday labeled the Taliban as an insurgent group, saying he will no longer see the Taliban as “brothers”.
Karzai’s policy shift on the Taliban comes two days after 10 Taliban suicide attackers infiltrated the Afghan National Army’s (ANA) 209 Shaheen Army Corps in the northern province of Balkh killing at least 135 offices and wounding over 80.
According to Karzai, the Taliban, by taking orders from foreigners, has committed an act of mass murder and in carrying out the atrocity, they have further expanded the wounds of the people of Afghanistan.
“With consideration of (Friday’s) act in which they (Taliban) killed our people, I can no longer call them brothers. I rather address them as a group which poses harm to Afghanistan; anyone who kills an Afghan for the sake of foreigners’ objectives is a terrorist whether it is Taliban, Daesh or anyone else,” said Karzai.
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