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KABUL, July 13, 2025 — Reports circulating in foreign media outlets and across social media platforms suggesting that former Afghan President Hamid Karzai met with German intelligence or interior officials to discuss the deportation of Afghan migrants are false, according to individuals who were actually present at those discussions.
Former National Security Advisor Dr. Rangin Dadfar Spanta and Afghanistan’s former ambassador to Germany, Mr. Hamid Seddiq, who took part in official meetings with German representatives in the first week of July, have confirmed that Hamid Karzai was not present at any point during those talks. Both emphasized that Karzai had no involvement in the meeting and no connection to the discussions held regarding the future of Afghan migrants in Germany.
They also clarified that Karzai had returned to Afghanistan in early June, weeks before the meetings took place in Europe. Verified travel records and sources close to the former president confirm that he was in Kabul during the period in which the meetings were held.
The meeting, according to officials, was part of ongoing policy-level consultations between Germany and Afghan figures over migration, and did not include intelligence-related negotiations nor high-level government representatives from the current administration in Kabul.
Efforts to link Hamid Karzai to these talks are being viewed as politically motivated and deliberately misleading, aiming to draw him into a highly sensitive and controversial issue that lies well outside his formal authority. As a former president with no official role in migration policy or diplomatic negotiations, Karzai holds no jurisdiction over the matter of deportations or asylum procedures.
Observers note that the propagation of such claims, especially on social media, appears to be part of a broader effort to create division and generate controversy around the handling of Afghan refugees in Europe. Afghan officials who were directly involved in the talks have urged the public and media to refrain from spreading unverified and inaccurate information.
