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Afghanistan moot: Pak offers to train Afghan military, police
[Geo News] Pakistan has offered to train the Afghan military and police, said Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi in his address during the International Conference on Afghanistan here Thursday.That should work... Not well, but it should work... The Pakistan Foreign Minister said Afhgnistan needs to train 300,000 Afghan troops by 2011 and it is in this context that Pakistan has made the training offer. Right. If I had an army to train I'd pick a country that had never won a war to do it... He said Afghanistan has sought help from Saudi Arabia and Pakistan for holding negotiations with the Taliban. British foreign secretary, David Miliband on the occasion termed the deployment of NATO's special representative for Afghanistan as a positive step. He said that Afghan president Hamid Karzai had asked the Taliban to sever its connections with Al-Qaeda. David Miliband announced 1.4 billion dollars financial help for Afghanistan. Meanwhile, Taliban have rejected the International Conference on Afghanistan, according to a website. Posted by: Fred 2010-01-29 |
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