Afghanistan: Hamid Karzais rival warns him not to cut deals with Taliban

By Ben Farmer in Kabul Published: 7:13PM GMT twenty-one February 2010

Afghan President Hamid Karzai is pronounced to have hold tip talks with the Taliban Photo: EPA

In an speak with The Daily Telegraph, Abdullah Abdullah additionally warned the associated Helmand descent would be consumed unless Afghans were swayed the Taliban would not be transposed by rapacious officials.

Pakistan"s assistance to inform Taliban protected havens inside of the borders was vicious to any success, he said, but warned even that would not deter the "suicide generation".

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His staid comment of assent moves came as Operation Moshtarak entered the second week with thousands of Afghan troops scheming to muster in areas of Marjah and Nad-i-Ali.

Allied commanders reported one after another occasionally insurgency whilst a supposed Taliban orator deserted Mr Karzai"s ultimate overtures.

Qari Mohammad Yousuf, said: "Karzai is a puppet he cannot paint a republic or a government."

A reintegration intrigue for Taliban feet soldiers is foresee to cost hundreds of millions of pounds and is strongly corroborated by London, Washington and Nato.

Dr Abdullah, who took Mr Karzai to a second turn of last autumn"s presidential vote, pronounced those job for remodel were ignored, whilst terrorists were rewarded.

He said: "Asking for an eccentric choosing commission in a nation that claims to be following approved process, what is the reaction, what is the response?

"Other people that are murdering people on the streets in the villages of Afghanistan and have taken the total bid of the general village and the goal of the Afghan people as warrant in to their hands, there are calls for them to come and stick on us and we will cheat you and compensate you."

The intrigue would additionally lure not prosperous Afghans to take up arms to validate for palm outs when they after defected, he warned.

He pronounced he had a bloc of MPs and domestic parties to competition September"s parliamentary elections that directed to win at slightest 100 of 249 seats in the reduce house.

His Coalition for Hope and Change numbered 50 MPs and had voted tactically to retard 70 per cent of Mr Karzai"s cupboard appointments in December, he said.

However he spoke as it was feared Mr Karzai had inspected an electoral remodel law by direct to serve make firm his hold on an choosing complement indicted of complicity in last year"s check fraud.

Draft versions of the direct sealed on Saturday private general staff from the Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) watchdog and paid for claimant vetting underneath ministerial control.

Officials refused to recover the last content of the law on Sunday.

The ECC pushed Mr Karzai to a second turn of choosing by casting votes opposite Dr Abdullah after it inspected allegations of drawn out rascal that saw hundreds of thousands of votes expel out.

"Had it not been for this ECC we would have been in turmoil, in big, big turmoil," pronounced Dr Abdullah.

Afghan staff faced heated domestic vigour during the complaints routine and choosing officials fright an Afghan-only physique would be forced to crawl to the president"s will.

Diplomats in Kabul had refused to account parliamentary elections in 2010 but remodel to forestall a repeat of last year"s fraud.

One general central said: "The law as it stands right away is a step retrograde usually as everybody is arguing for a step forwards."

Grant Kippen, head of the ECC last year, told The Daily Telegraph the targeting of the physique seemed "a obvious try at interfering with the functioning of the usually Afghanistan electoral physique that scrupulously liberated the mandate".

He called for a consummate review of what had left wrong last year prior to any reforms were put in place and pronounced MPs should be consulted on reform.

Meanwhile, January Peter Balkenende, the Dutch budding apportion whose cupboard collapsed on Saturday over the generation of the Afghan troops mission, pronounced he approaching to repel the 2,000-strong fortuitous in August.