Washington [US], December 27 (ANI): Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai mentioned on Tuesday he took accountability for corruption within the nation whereas admitting that the United States was concerned in it.

“[I take] full responsibility for the corruption and bribes in the delivery of services … But the big contracts, big corruption, in hundreds of millions of dollars or millions of dollars, was clearly a United States of America thing,” Karzai advised US-based The Washington Post.

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The US newspaper mentioned the previous president lives in Kabul the place he’s intently watched by the Taliban which doesn’t let him go away the Afghan capital . Karzai, nevertheless, mentioned he had made the best determination to remain within the nation even after the Taliban takeover in August 2021.

“I was not sure of my own safety. But I would have never left and I will never leave. This is my country,” the previous Afghan chief mentioned.

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The Washington Post reported that the Taliban see Karzai as their adversary as he was “the first individual who worked with the Americans for the occupation of Afghanistan”.

Karzai claimed that the United States bears final accountability for the destiny of Afghanistan.

“The war in Afghanistan was not our war,” Karzai advised The Washington Post, including, “I was not a partner of the United States in that war against Afghan villages and homes. I changed from the moment I recognized that this war that is fought in the name of defeating terrorism is actually a war against the Afghan people.”

“I called the Taliban ‘brothers’ for that reason,” he mentioned.

The Taliban got here to energy in August 2021, toppling the US-backed authorities as international troops had been leaving the nation.

The political disaster has exacerbated the financial disarray and meals shortages which have pushed the nation to the brink of a humanitarian disaster.

Karzai was Afghanistan’s president from December 2004 to September 2014.

He was the chief of the nation after the US toppled the Taliban authorities in 2001 following their army operation in response to September 11 assaults, the deadliest terrorist assaults on US soil. (ANI)

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