November 5, 2001	Monday	haba’an 18, 1422

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QUETTA, Nov 4: The former Afghan deputy foreign minister, Hamid Karzai, has denied Taliban’s claim that he was taken away by the United States helicopters from Afghanistan and said that he is still in Uruzgan.

He stated this while talking to his younger brother Ahmed Wali Karzai, on Sunday afternoon on satellite telephone. He said that he was not hiding in mountains.

“I am very much in district Dehramad of Uruzgan and working on my agenda regarding convening of Loya Jirga, I believe it is the only solution of Afghanistan’s crisis,” he told his brother adding that he will continue his efforts which started 15 years ago after resigning from the post of deputy foreign minister of the Mujahideen government.

He also dispelled the impression that he was making these efforts on the behest of United States of America. “No, I have nothing to do with US on the issue of Loya Jirga,” he clarified to his brother adding that no US helicopter came to Dehramad for his rescue.

“This is absolutely wrong. I did not ask the United States for any help or rescue,” Hamid Karzai told Ahmed Karzai on telephone.