Karzai slams US military freedom, defends Afghan sovereignty

‘Afghanistan’s former President Hamid Karzai has censured new authorities for giving the US military greater freedom in the fight against Taliban, saying the attitude could dent Afghan sovereignty.
Karzai made the remarks in an interview on Thursday, expressing objection to the policies of the administration of current President Ashraf Ghani regarding the US military activities.
“How could the US president authorize US troops to launch attacks on their own in Afghanistan?” Karzai said, referring to unsupervised airstrikes by the US military on civilians and militants in Afghanistan. “Don’t we have a government here? Aren’t we a sovereign country?”‘
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