People in Afghanistan want peace, including the Taliban. They're also people like we all are. They have families, they have relatives, they have children, they are suffering a tough time.

If the United States is treating Afghanistan as a sovereign country it has to prove it.

The West has been able to bring Afghanistan a much better health service, better education, better roads, a better economy, though some have benefited more; some have benefited less from that economic well-being in Afghanistan.

I hope (the United States) will change and they will now focus entirely on helping and building a stronger, better Afghanistan.

We are not America. We are Afghanistan.

Six months have passed since that horrible, horrible event of terrorism in the twin towers and Washington. I hope people all over the world recognize that these bad people, these criminals who committed crimes like that will be shown to the courts, and the people will have justice, and that we all shall work together to prevent these bad people from hurting us again.

The majority of the Afghan people support a strategic partnership with the United States.