“Terrorism sees, in the prosperity of the Afghan people, its ultimate defeat.”

—  Hamid Karzai

Address to Canadian Parliament https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Karzai%27s_address_to_Canadian_Parliament (September 22, 2006)
2006

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