Karzai's brother suspected of involvement in drug trade: report

A brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Ahmed Wali Karzai, may be involved in the illegal drug trade, which is prompting serious concern among top US officials, The New York Times reported on its website Saturday.

Citing unnamed US officials, the newspaper said the US ambassador to Afghanistan, the Central Intelligence Agency's station chief and their British counterparts, discussed the allegations against Ahmed Wali Karzai with Hamid Karzai as far back as 2006.

But the Afghan president has so far resisted calls to move his brother out of the country, arguing he had not seen any conclusive evidence against Ahmed, according to the report.

Everybody in Afghanistan AND his brother is involved in the drug trade.

If we really wanted to stop it, we could buy up all the heroin direct from the farmers, at a cheap price, and take it off the market.

The farmers would still get their money and it would be much cheaper than the “drug war”.

But for some reason we don’t want to do this...

If they did, reporters’ attention might better be directed away from the riotous streets of Islamabad and towards a McMansion on a leafy quiet street in Mendham, New Jersey.

That’s the home of a fellow from Afghanistan named Mansur Maqsudi. Afghans are comprised of various ethnic groups such as Pushtun, Hazara, Tajik, and Uzbek. The Maqsudis are a prominent Uzbek family headed by patriarch Abdul Rauf Maqsudi.

His two sons, Farid and Mansur, were granted US citizenship some years ago for various forms of assistance to the CIA. Farid is on the Board of the American University of Afghanistan. Mansur is a business partner of Jamil Karzai, President Hamid Karzai’s nephew. The business is heroin.

It was the only way for Mansur to make money enough to meet his needs after he divorced his wife in 2001. She would be Gulnora Karimova-Maqsudi, the daughter of the dictator of Uzbekistan, Islam Karimov. Gulnora had gotten Mansur the Coca Cola distributorship for Uzbekistan and a rake-off on all US goods entering Karimov’s kingdom.

It’s not smart to dump the daughter of a dictator. Gulnora split from New Jersey with the two kids back to daddy in Tashkent and terminated the Maqsudi businesses. Mansur saw his only option was to provide the streets of New York with Afghan White, cutting Jamil in on the deal.

Nothing is being done about it, just as nothing is being done about the Afghan poppy fields.

Just look at the increase in Afghan opium poppy cultivation since the inception of the Karzai government in late 2001:

And nothing is being done about securing Pak nukes. Or at least what is necessary.

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