President Karzai turns his lavish retirement home to ARG guesthouse --- Afghan President Hamdi Karzai has instructed to turn his lavish retirement home to official guesthouse for foreign dignitaries and other visitors travelling to Kabul to meet the next president. -- The new property is built is very close to the presidential palace and was inaugurated by President Hamid Karzai on Thursday. -- President Karzai said, this new and beautiful property was built in accordance with the constitution of Afghanistan where he was supposed to reside in it after retirement. -- However, he said the standards of the property is relatively higher as compared to the living conditions of the Afghan people, therefore the property is suitable to be used as official guesthouse for the visitors of presidential palace. -- Settlement of President Hamid Karzai in the vast new property close to the presidential palace fuelled speculation that he intends to play an active role in the country`s politics when he leaves office. -- In the meantime, President Hamid Karzai’s spokesman Aimal Faizi has said the president will have a normal, Afghan-type home in Kabul. -- Faizi said people will soon know the exact residence of President Karzai. “It is not a newly built house, and people will soon know exactly where it is,” Faizi quoted by AFP said. - More, http://www.khaama.com/president-karzai-turns-his-lavish-retirement-home-to-arg-guesthouse-6670