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    227 : Karzai’s Diplomacy of Hopes and Wishes

    Sajjad Ashraf, Consultant at the ISAS

    12 September 2013

    Speaking to reporters before leaving Kabul for Islamabad towards the end of August 2013, Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai sounded resigned when he said: “I will travel to Pakistan hoping to get a result out of it. I’m hopeful, but not sure, I will only go with hopes; and wish they materialise”.