 In October 2017 Karzai stated that the U.S. uses the Islamic State insurgency as a tool in Afghanistan, aimed at destabilizing the whole region, urging the international community, in his words, to convince the U.S. that it needs to actually fight terrorism.In 1999, Hamid Karzai married Zeenat Quraishi, a gynaecologist by profession who was working as a doctor with Afghan refugees living in Pakistan.They have a son, Mirwais, who was born in January 2007, a daughter, Malalai, born in 2012 and another daughter, Howsi, born in March 2014 in Gurgaon, India.