How appropriate is to respond to Karzai by referring to him and his family as corrupt? What is the substance of his comments? Do these schools turn out religious radicals or learned and benevolent Muslims?
I think regardless of our political opinion we can agree that whatever it is that these schools turn out, generally speaking, "learned and benevolent Muslims" is not the characterization that comes to mind.
Now, it is interesting to note that Mr. karzai, who is ideologically close to the so called "peace loving" ANP, has not called upon the ANP which is the party in power in Pakhtunkhwa and therefore best poised to act, rather Mr. Karzai has chosen ask the Pakistani Federal government to act, perhaps calculating that such action may not be politically advisable in the counter insurgency milieu the Pakistan state is engaged in and most certainly it would politically dificult should the governemnt be seen to act upon Afghan diktat, perhaps Mr. Karzai's political team, calculates thus.
It must be clear to our readers that Mr. Karzai has a domestic audience and an audience far away, as well as an audience to the east of us. Were Mr. Karzai, a more serious individual and his political team more sure of making Afghanistan their home, his statements against extremism and terrorism in support of political aims would be taken more seriously in Pakistan, we all hope.
It must also we clear to reasonable persons that the days when Mr. karzai and his NA government could appreciate much political mileage by laying their failures at the feet of any government in Pakistan are coming to a close and that an Afghan government unable to win legitimacy for itself in it's own population (as opposed to legitimacy in distant corners of the world), ought to be seen as one in it's twilight, giving way to a more legitimate government in it's dawn, one which is conscious of it's geography as it's history (it is to be hoped).
