Taliban claim assassination of Hamid Karzai's brother

[mohib]

KANDAHAR: The Taliban claimed responsibility for the assassination of President Hamid Karzais younger brother on Tuesday, calling it one of our biggest achievements in nearly a decade of war.
Taliban spokesman Usuf Ahmadi told AFP by telephone that the group had recently assigned a gunman to kill Ahmed Wali Karzai, a hugely powerful and controversial figure in the Afghan south.

Ahmed Wali Karzai, the younger brother of the Afghan president and a hugely powerful if controversial figure in southern Afghanistan, was assassinated at home on Tuesday, officials said.
The killing of his chief local powerbroker will be a huge loss for President Hamid Karzai in Kandahar, the heartland of the Taliban insurgency as NATO troops rush to start withdrawing combat troops after a decade of war.
Initial details were sketchy, with a family friend telling AFP on condition of anonymity that he was killed by a bodyguard while entertaining guests at home and an Afghan intelligence official saying he was shot dead by a guest.
We can confirm he has been martyred, Kandahar provincial government spokesman Zalmay Ayubi told AFP, providing no further details.
A health official, also speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the information, said Wali Karzai had been shot dead.
He was shot dead at his house by one of the visiting guests not by a body guard, at around 11:30 am (0700 GMT), said an official at Afghanistans intelligence agency, the National Directorate of Security.
The official said the gunman had himself been killed by other bodyguards.
The family friend said a number of Wali Karzais guests were also killed in the gunfire, but there was no immediate confirmation of who or how many.
The assassination came just before the Afghan leader received French President Nicolas Sarkozy, on a surprise visit to Afghanistan where he announced that Paris would recall 1,000 soldiers by the end of next year.
Wali Karzai, head of Kandahars provincial council, was for years a deeply controversial figure, dogged by allegations of unsavoury links to Afghanistans lucrative opium trade and private security firms.
American documents leaked by Internet whistleblower WikiLeaks late last year painted him as a corrupt drugs baron, lifting the lid on Western thoughts long kept private on the presidents younger half brothers tainted record.
Kandahar is a make-or-break battleground in the US-led fight to defeat the insurgency, where the United States has poured in thousands of extra troops to wrest the initiative from the Taliban and bolster the Afghan government.
Afghanistan is ranked one of the most corrupt countries in the world, where official graft undermines public support for the Western-backed government and is believed to help fuel support for the Taliban insurgency.
A US cable in 2009 said a meeting with Wali Karzai captured one of the major challenges in Afghanistan: how to fight corruption and connect the people to their government, when the key government officials are themselves corrupt.
Wali Karzai, who ran his own private militia in the province, is reported to have said the plethora of independent security firms run by different men in the region should be brought under the control of one man.

http://tribune.com.pk/story/207959/brother-of-afghan-president-killed-official/

 

[student]

soon after US leave, you will read the news of karazai assassination... US has achieved nothing there in 10 years.. but yes their economy is on brink of collapse because of these wars.

 

[w-a-n-t-e-d-]

Khas kam jahaan pak


lanti heron ka dealer tha


yar yeh mumtaz qadri or aysay gurads rehman malik or zardari altaf hussain waghera ko bhi lagwa k do ;)

 

[Wadaich]

soon after US leave, you will read the news of karazai assassination... US has achieved nothing there in 10 years.. but yes their economy is on brink of collapse because of these wars.

U have missed one more news. Collective/Mass Chitaa of Raw and Indian army working under the flag of development works have been burnt in Afghanistan and the ashes have been sent to India for Ganga River.

 

[angryoldman]

U have missed one more news. Collective/Mass Chitaa of Raw and Indian army working under the flag of development works have been burnt in Afghanistan and the ashes have been sent to India for Ganga River.

jalti peh aur tail dalo.lakin roshan khiyalon ka khayal rakho yaar.abhi un ko aag lagy gi.

 

[onlykami]

Wali karzai brother of Hamid Karzai is assassinated, Taliban takes the responsibility

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/8631896/Ahmad-Wali-Karzais-assassination-leaves-a-big-headache-for-Nato.html

 

[gazoomartian]

soon after US leave, you will read the news of karazai assassination... US has achieved nothing there in 10 years.. but yes their economy is on brink of collapse because of these wars.

Hamid karzai is next

 

[w-a-n-t-e-d-]

Hamid karzai is next

InshahAllah

 

[littlemaster]

cia vs taliban and taliban are winning.

 

[biomat]

http://www.infowars.com/afghan-cia-drug-kingpin-shot-dead-by-own-bodyguards/

 

[biomat]

 

[BrotherKantu]

soon after US leave, you will read the news of karazai assassination... US has achieved nothing there in 10 years.. but yes their economy is on brink of collapse because of these wars.

I completely disagree with you on this one. He will be hanged by the barrel of a Tank.

 

[w-a-n-t-e-d-]

اپنے آپ سے سوال کریں

دلالوں کا انجام

​

 

[Night_Hawk]

Wali Karzai: Drugs baron, CIA agent or Afghan defender?

AFP July 12, 2011 (2 days ago)

Ahmad Wali Karzai (C) speaks at a news conference in Quetta, Pakistan in this still image taken from a December 2001 video. – Reuters Photo

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KABUL: Ahmed Wali Karzai, the Afghan president’s assassinated younger brother, was either a drugs baron, a CIA agent or a fierce defender of the Afghan people, depending on who you listen to.
What is beyond dispute is that he was a controversial figure and a warlord who commanded tremendous power over Kandahar, one of the most restive provinces of the war-torn country and the spiritual home of the Taliban.
The son of a well-to-do political family from an influential Pashtun tribe, the Popalzai, he headed the provincial council in Kandahar for seven years, where he was widely considered to control all commercial and political dealings.
His powerful role necessitated regular talks with American forces waging a counterinsurgency in the key Taliban battleground.
But leaked cables released last year revealed true US feelings about the president’s half-brother, who was long dogged by claims of unsavoury links with the lucrative opium trade and private security firms.
After one meeting with US envoy Frank Ruggiero in September 2009, the American diplomat said of Karzai, known by the acronym “AWK”: “While we must deal with AWK as the head of the provincial council, he is widely understood to be corrupt and a narcotics trafficker.”
He always flamboyantly denied the mass of allegations against him, including that he ran private militias and claimed he escaped an assassination attempt in 2009. He wasn’t to be so lucky on Tuesday, when he was killed in his own home.
After the WikiLeaks debacle he told Tolo television: “Dear brother! First of all, I’ve no security company… If one is able to show one single contract under my name, I’ll take all responsibility for all against myself.”
Kandahar is a make-or-break southern battleground in the US-led fight to defeat the insurgency, and the United States has thousands of troops in the area trying to wrest initiative from the Taliban and bolster the Afghan government.
The New York Times reported in 2009 that the younger Karzai had been on the CIA payroll for most of the previous eight years for services that included fielding recruits for an Afghan paramilitary operating under CIA direction.
The newspaper reported that he helped the CIA contact and sometimes meet Taliban followers. As with most allegations levelled against him in the Western press, Karzai wasted no time denying the report.
Aged 49 and the youngest of six boys and a girl, Wali Karzai shared the same father as his presidential brother Hamid but had a different mother.
He studied at one of Kabul’s most prestigious schools, the Habibia High School, and after pro-communist forces took power in 1978 he went to live in Chicago, where he managed a branch of the family restaurant.
In the mid-1990s, he left behind two of his brothers in the United States to join his father and Hamid in Quetta, in southwestern Pakistan, where they were organising an anti-Soviet resistance.
Since the 2001 US-led invasion toppled the Taliban and installed Hamid as president, Wali Karzai “gradually built a powerful empire in Kandahar through the support of foreign backers and by bringing under his influence the province’s key commercial, military and contracting networks,” wrote Carl Forsberg, author of a key report on the southern province.
But his influence and family ties to the key battleground divided opinion among residents and foreign forces fighting the war in the south.
“He was viewed by many as an obstacle to change and progress in the south — by others as the most important figure in terms of bringing security,” said Candace Rondeaux, Afghanistan analyst for the International Crisis Group.
“He may have had more enemies than friends in the end,” she said.
Wali Karzai was a father of four. His youngest child, a boy, was born just three months ago, said a family member.

 

[WatanDost]

Traitors Mourning - Wali Karzai Will be remembered for his services - Asfandyar Wali Khan

I think its BLESSING of ALLAH SWT
That US lost his biggest ASSET in AFGANISTAN.
Even bigger than Hamid Karzai.
INDEED
ALLAH IS BEST OF PLANNERS

US LOST his biggest investment
when he needs a BIG PUSH for his PEACEFULL TAKE OFF
from AFGANISTAN.
AND
THERE PLANE BURNED BEFORE BOARDING.

[HI]
AFGANS SAY
"ONE WHO RULE QANDHAR HE RULES AFGANISTAN"
AND
TRATORS are FEELING THE HEAT.
[/HI]

 

[only_truths]

I wish one day Taliban claims that they have saved a life. I believe only the creator be it Ram or Allah (SWT) or Jesus or any God, has the authority to destroy. Judgement on who should die should come from the creator and not the created.

 

[Night_Hawk]

Karzai brother service hit by Kandahar suicide bomber

Karzai brother service hit by Kandahar suicide bomber

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The BBC's Bilal Sarwary was a street away when the explosion happened

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-14151048#story_continues_1


A suicide bomber has killed four people at a memorial service in Kandahar for the assassinated half-brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
Officials say the bomber apparently hid explosives in his turban and detonated them near the entrance of the mosque.
President Karzai was not present at the memorial. Four of his other brothers were but escaped unharmed.
Ahmad Wali Karzai, a controversial but key figure in Nato's battle against the Taliban, was killed by his bodyguard.
President Karzai flew into Kandahar for his brother's funeral on Wednesday, but left the city before Thursday's service.
No group has so far admitted carrying out the mosque attack.
Another explosion later hit the centre of Kandahar, killing one person and injuring several others, said the police chief of Kandahar.
Chaos and panic The explosion in the Red Mosque took place just after noon (0730 GMT) in the southern Afghan city, as the service for Ahmad Wali Karzai was coming to an end.

At the scene

Bilal Sarwary BBC News, Kandahar
I was in the mosque 30 minutes before the explosion took place.
Senior government officials, tribal elders and people from across the country were present at the memorial service for Ahmad Wali Karzai.
When the bomb went off, I was in the next street talking to other tribal elders.
According to eyewitnesses inside the mosque, the suicide attacker was prevented by security guards from entering.
The bomber blew himself up at one of gates of the mosque.
All the key roads have now been closed in the area.

Officials say the attacker was stopped at the mosque's entrance, where he blew himself up.
Witnesses, including President Karzai's spokesman Waheed Omer, said he had hidden the explosives in his turban. Provincial intelligence chief Gen Mohammad Naeem Momin told the Associated Press that early investigations supported the reports.
The BBC's Bilal Sarwary in Kandahar said that security was not as tight as it could have been around the mosque.
Tradition dictates that mourners are not searched when attending memorials, says our correspondent, and several tribal elders told him they had not been searched.
The interior ministry and medical sources said four people and the bomber had been killed.
Among those killed was Hikmatullah Hikmat, the head of Kandahar's Ulema Council, said the ministry. The council is an influential body of clerics in charge of regulating religious issues in the province.
The ministry said a child was also among the dead.

"There was a prayer going on and after that prayer, the man came close to the director of the religious council and exploded," Kandahar governor Toryalai Wesa told AP.
Officials say the casualty figures could have been much higher had the attacker been able to get inside the mosque itself, says our correspondent.
Four of President Karzai's brothers, several other Karzai family members and Mr Wesa were in the mosque at the time. None were believed to have been hurt.
Appeal to Taliban Ahmad Wali Karzai was shot twice by his family friend and long-time head of security, Sardar Mohammad, on Tuesday. The bodyguard was himself killed almost immediately.
The Taliban said the attack was one of their top achievements in 10 years of war. However, correspondents say the bodyguard's motives remain unclear and it seems unlikely that someone so close to the Karzai family was working for the insurgents.
Ahmad Wali Karzai was seen by many as a key anti-Taliban figure, someone who stood up to them, using his private army and vast network to fight the insurgents, our correspondent says.

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Security was tight during Wednesday's funeral

But he adds that his critics accused him of undermining the central government in Kabul.
On Wednesday, President Karzai wept at the graveside, and kissed his dead half-brother's face as senior politicians looked on.
The president then appealed to the militants to stop the bloodshed.
"My message for the Taliban is, my countryman, my brother, stop killing your own people," said Mr Karzai. "It's easy to kill and everyone can do it, but the real man is the one who can save people's lives."
Tuesday's killing was the latest and most high-profile in a series of assassinations of senior politicians and security commanders across the country.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-14151048

 

[Lodhi]

بھائی باتھ روم میں ہیں

بھائی باتھ روم میں ہیں

محمد حنیف
بی بی سی اردو ڈاٹ کام، کراچی

کیا حامد کرزئی صاحب سے بات ہو سکتی ہے۔ راقم نے فون اُٹھانے والے سے پوچھا۔
بھائی تو اس وقت باتھ روم میں ہیں۔ آپ بی بی سی سے بات کر رہے ہیں
جی
تو مجھ سے بات کرلیں، میں اُن کا بھائی ہوں احمد وکیل کرزئی
بہت شکریہ۔ میں تھوڑی دیر میں فون کر لوں
جیسے آپ کی مرضی
ستمبر 2001 کے بعد افغانستان پر فوج کشی ہونے کو تھی کئی ریٹائرڈ مجاہد اور گمنام قبیلوں کے نامعلوم قبائلی رہنما شہ سرخیوں میں گھس کر اپنے آپ کو افغانستان کے رہنما کے طور پر پیش کر رہے تھے۔
چند دن قبل ہی دنیا کا سارا میڈیا پشاور میں ایک سابق مجاہد کمانڈر کے گھر جمع تھا۔ عبدالحق کو دبئی میں ان کی ریٹائرڈ زندگی سے نکال کر لایا گیا تھا اور پھر امریکی جاسوس اداروں اور اخباروں نے چند ہی دنوں میں انہیں افغانستان کے نجات دہندہ کے عہدے پر فائز کر دیا۔ وہ اپنے چند ساتھیوں کے ساتھ ایک سٹیلائیٹ فون اور ڈالروں سے بھرا ایک سوٹ کیس لے کر افغانستان کو آزاد کرانے کے لیے ابھی افعانستان میں گھسے ہی تھے کہ طالبان نے بغیر علیک سلیک کے انہیں ہلاک کر دیا۔
مغربی میڈیا ابھی طالبان کا صحیح تلفظ سیکھ ہی رہا تھا لیکن پھر بھی یاروں نے اِسے طالبان کی بربریت کی ایک اور داستان کے طور پر پیش کیا۔ حلانکہ ایک ریٹائرڈ آدمی کو ڈالروں سے بھرا سوٹ کیس دے کر اِن ظالم طالبان کے دیس میں بھیجنا بھی تو ایک طرح کی بربریت تھی۔
جب افغانستان پر حملہ شروع ہوا تو ایک اور نجات دہندہ کا نام دیا گیا۔ کوئٹہ میں رہائش رکھتے تھے، ممتاز قبائلی رہنما تھے، معروف کمانڈر تھے لیکن ان کا یہ تعارف صرف پاکستانی اور امریکی خفیہ ایجنسیوں کے مقامی اہلکاروں تک تھا راقم اور راقم کے مدیران نے تو کبھی کرزئی کا نام بھی نہیں سنا تھا۔
جب افغانستان پر حملہ شروع ہوا تو ایک اور نجات دہندہ کا نام دیا گیا۔ کوئٹہ میں رہائش رکھتے تھے، ممتاز قبائلی رہنما تھے، معروف کمانڈر تھے لیکن ان کا یہ تعارف صرف پاکستانی اور امریکی خفیہ ایجنسیوں کے مقامی اہلکاروں تک تھا راقم اور راقم کے مدیران نے تو کبھی کرزئی کا نام بھی نہیں سنا تھا۔



لیکن باقی صحافیوں کی طرح ہم نے بھی نمبر گھمایا۔ پھر دوبارہ گھمایا تو ایک سٹیلائیٹ فون کا نمبر دیا گیا اِس بار فون خود بڑے بھائی حامد کرزئی صاحب نے اٹھایا اور فرمانے لگے کہ اس وقت قندھار کے نزدیک ایک نامعلوم پہاڑی سے بات کر رہا ہوں۔ ہم افغانستان کو طالبان کے چنگل سے آزاد کروائیں گے، وغیرہ وغیرہ
راقم یہ سوچتا ہی رہ گیا کہ حضرت بیس منٹ کے اندر اندر کوئٹہ کے باتھ روم سے قندھار کی پہاڑیوں تک کیسے پہنچے!
یہ واقعہ مجھے احمد وکیل کرزئی کی ہلاکت کے بعد امریکی اخباروں میں اُن کے بارے میں لکھی جانے والی تعزیتی تحریریں پڑھ کر یاد آیا۔
ان کے امریکی مداحوں نے انہیں ایک ہی جملے میں منشیات کا سمگلر بھی کہا، بے لگام جنگجو سردار بھی اور ساتھ ہی امریکہ کا سچا ساتھی بھی جس کے بعد افغانستان کے جنوب میں ایک بڑا خلا پیدا ہوگیا ہے۔
ایک صحافی نے شاعرانہ مبالغہ آرائی سے کام لیتے ہوئے یہ بھی کہا کہ امریکی کمانڈر احمد وکیل کرزئی سے ہاتھ ملانے کے بعد یقیناً اپنے ہاتھ دھوتے ہوں گے۔ معلوم نہیں اس سے امریکیوں کی صفائی پسندی کیسے ثابت ہوتی ہے۔ معلوم نہیں گلے لگانے کے بعد کیا کرتے ہوں گے۔

کرزئی کے بھائی کے جنازے پر بھی حملہ ہوا


عین ممکن ہے مرحوم وکیل کرزئی بھی امریکیوں سے ہاتھ ملانے کے بعد وضوع دوبارہ کر لیتے ہوں۔ مگر دونوں کے ہاتھ دھوتے دھوتے ایک پورا ملک غرقاب ہونے کو آگیا ہے۔
سچی بات یہ ہے کہ راقم نہیں جانتا کہ جب بڑے بھائی فون پر بات کر رہے تھے تو وہ اپنی جنگ غسل خانے سے لڑ رہے تھے یا قندھار میں مورچہ زن تھے۔ لیکن یہ بات پوری دنیا جانتی ہے کہ جب دو مہینے بعد دسمبر 2001 میں جرمنی میں حامد کرزئی کی تاج پوشی کی گئی تو وہ کسی محاذِ جنگ پر نہیں تھے بلکہ امریکی فوجیوں کی حفاظت میں تھے۔ اور دس سال گزرنے کے بعد آج بھی ہیں۔
اور امید ہے کہ باتھ روم جاتے ہونگے تو بھی پہرہ باہر امریکی ہی دیتے ہونگے کیونکہ اب تو خاندانی محافظوں سے اعتبار اُٹھ گیا۔​

 

[Lodhi]

Karzai's Murdered Half-Brother's involvement with CIA and Drug Trade