Afghan President Hamid Karzai said he “saw no good” with the presence of US in his country, as he admitted that he has not spoken to Barack Obama in seven months.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai said he “saw no good” with the presence of US in his country, as he admitted that he has not spoken to Barack Obama in seven months.

In an interview with The Sunday Times, Karzai revealed the complete breakdown of trust between his country and the United States, as he said he has not spoken to his American counterpart since June.

"This whole 12 years was one of constant pleading with America to treat the lives of our civilians as lives of people," he said.
"We met in South Africa [at Mandela's funeral] but didn't speak. Letters have been exchanged."

Karzai said that he "saw no good" in the American presence in his country.
"They did not work for me, they worked against me," he said, and referred to the Taliban in his interview with as "brothers" and the Americans as "rivals".
His rhetoric has been ill received in Washington, where American politicians are evermore infuriated by Karzai's stance.

Relations between the Afghan president and the US administration have been strained since Karzai refused to sign a deal to allow US troops stay in Afghanistan.

America spent $648bn (£394bn) during the war, which has cost 2,211 lives. Last week Congress cut development aid to Afghanistan in half, reducing it to $1.1bn.

But Karzai appeared to be unrepentant.
"The money they should have paid to the police they paid to private security firms and creating militias who caused lawlessness, corruption and highway robbery," he said.

"They then began systematically waging psychological warfare on our people, encouraging our money to go out of our country.
"What they did was create pockets of wealth and a vast countryside of deprivation and anger."