US colluded with IS in Afghanistan: Karzai

US colluded with IS in Afghanistan: Karzai

Hamid Karzai

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The Trump administration made IS as an excuse to drop a massive bomb in Afghanistan on April 2017

Former president of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai has accused the United States of colluding with ISISin his country.

"In my view under the full presence, surveillance, military, political, intelligence, Daesh(Arabic name of the IS)has emerged," Karzai said in an interview to Al Jazeera.

Karzai said that the US allowed Daeshto flourish inside Afghanistan.

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"The Trump administration made IS as an excuse to drop a massive bomb in Afghanistan on April 2017", he said.

"And the next day, Daesh takes the next district in Afghanistan. That proves to us that there is a hand in it and that hand can be no one else but them in Afghanistan," the former Afghan leader added.

The US military had dropped a GBU-43, most powerful non-nuclear bomb in the Achin district of Afghanistan's Nangarhar province in April.

The explosive, also known as the 'mother of all bombs'm(MOAB), was designed to minimise the risk to Afghan and US forces conducting clearing operations in the area, the report said.

Meanwhile, in the interview, Karzai also said that he welcomed a recent call by the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Fatou Bensouda to investigate war crimes in Afghanistan, including those committed during his tenure in office.