Hamid Karzai seeks to re-edit command with a comfortable lead

Kabul, 14 Aug 2009. - Installed in a comfortable lead over its rivals, the Afghan President Hamid Karzai, aims to defend his mandate in the elections on 20 by Flag of the dialogue with more moderate Taliban and the country pending the promised development.
Karzai, 51, has been leading Afghanistan almost from the fall of the Taliban in 2001, first leading a transitional government and later elected as president by the citizens, in 2004.
In the upcoming elections, the current president wants to win re-election over his critics, who accuse him of tolerating corruption, relying on the old "warlords" and be unable to develop the institutions.
So far, Karzai has come pacts with the leaders of different ethnic minorities, such as "warlords" Ismail Khan (Tajik) and Rashid Dostum (Uzbek), and has incorporated his nomination to the powerful Mohammed Fahim, a controversial general and a former defense minister in his government and now wants to be his vice president.
With Fahim, Karzai seeks to ensure the support of northern Tajiks, the second largest ethnic group in the country, while he tries to shore up the vote of the Pashtuns in the south and east against the boycott promoted by Taliban insurgents.
His most important punch line is just an offer of dialogue to more moderate Taliban, in order that these lay down their arms and join to building Afghan democracy at a time of expansion of the insurgency.
The pact would be a new twist to the political career of this leading moderate Pashtun, who during the Soviet occupation (1979-1989) served as an advisor to the mujahideen and then supported the Taliban thinking, like many, that would bring stability to the country.
The close relations that the latter had with the Pakistani secret services led him, however, to distance themselves from the fundamentalists and began to organize opposition abroad since before the 11-S.
With the U.S. intervention in Afghanistan, Karzai was decided to fight against the Taliban and starred in an epic entrance on the south accompanied by a handful of followers several motorcycle riding, as has the writer Ahmed Rashid in his book " A Descent Into Chaos. "
And then, chosen to lead the country's interim government, the president still managed to maintain a precarious balance between the different factions, ethnic groups and tribes of the country, still central to the political system.
While domestic policy has been criticized by liberals for being slow in its reforms and the prevailing corruption, the Afghan people value their sentences distressed civilian deaths at the hands of international troops in the country.
Reviled by his opponents derided as "mayor of Kabul" because of limited control over the country, Karzai is yet to be popular among Afghans under the last two surveys known, which attributed a 44 and 45 percent respectively, decided to vote in presidential elections.
With a twenty point lead over its nearest rival, Karzai faces the future of Afghanistan as favorite comfortable in his role as "father of the nation", as it is termed some of his election posters.
"If you vote today Karzai, Karzai guarantee your tomorrow "promises Afghans in their electoral slogan.
Populism aside, the real merit of the current president has been his move to occupy the center of the Afghan crossroads: between Pashtuns and Tajiks, between foreign troops and the public, between moderate Taliban and the small liberal sector.
They say of him, those who know him, that feels so comfortable in a suit and tie like a turban and robe