Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/karzai-calls-for-afghan-unity-after-election Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Transcript Margaret Warner updates the situation in Afghanistan, where she has been reporting on President Hamid Karzai's victory after a disputed election. Read the Full Transcript Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors. JIM LEHRER: The president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, addressed his country today, and he called for unity. He also made a broad-based promise of reforms, but gave no specifics.Margaret Warner is in Kabul with our lead story report.HAMID KARZAI, president, Afghanistan: All those who want to work with me are most welcome, regardless of whether they opposed me in the election or whether they supported me in the election. MARGARET WARNER: The Afghan president made his bid for broader support a day after he was declared the victor in a much disputed election.But Hamid Karzai did not mention his challenger, Abdullah Abdullah, who dropped out of a planned runoff, charging it could be neither free, nor fair. HAMID KARZAI: On the government of the future, as I have stated earlier, it will be a government of unity; it will be a government for all the Afghan people. And, as a matter of fact, as I have said many times before, I don't have an opposition. I don't have any personality or any group as my opposition. And I don't want to be opposed to anybody. That's why I don't have a political party. So, my government will be for all Afghans. MARGARET WARNER: Karzai also extended his hand to the Taliban insurgents, urging them to come back to their country.But the Taliban claimed a victory of their own, crowing about their role in derailing the runoff. "Our brave mujahedeen were able to disrupt the entire process," the Taliban statement said. "Even the airstrikes and ground forces were not able to stop our mujahedeen from their attacks."Karzai conceded, his government his been, quote, "seriously discredited" by administrative corruption. He promised to remove this stigma, to restore the confidence of Afghans and of the nations supplying tens of thousands of troops and billions of dollars to shore up his country. HAMID KARZAI: We will keep trying our best to address the questions that we have facing Afghanistan and to make sure that the wishes of the Afghan people come true, and, also, at the same time, to make sure that the taxpayers' money coming to us from your countries is spent wisely and rightly.