Afghan President Hamid Karzai will seek action from Pakistan to prevent anti-government attacks in border areas during a state visit to Islamabad next week, the foreign minister said on Wednesday. Abdullah Abdullah told a news conference he would accompany Karzai on the one-day visit to Pakistan on April 22, when security would be on the agenda, as well as trade and aid. "Recently there have been some security incidents, which have been a cause of concern for the government of Afghanistan, for the people of Afghanistan and for the international community. Most of the activities were planned outside Afghanistan," he said, without specifically referring to Pakistan.
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Other Afghan officials have accused Pakistan of involvement in the killing on Sunday of a cousin of the governor of Afghanistan's Kandahar province in a Pakistani border town. They also say remnants of Kabul's former Taliban regime have been launching guerrilla strikes from Pakistani territory.
| This is going to bring this issue further out into the open — it's been trying to make its appearance for awhile now. Perv is going to issue some pious denials and he's going to do nothing. Qazi and Fazl will rant and fume over the Unfounded Accusations Against Simple, Pious Folk by the Perfidious Afghans. Two can play at the cross-border Krazed Killer game, though. If it comes to that, just a few bands of Tadjiks and Uzbeks with maybe a sprinkling of Special Forces could wreak enormous havoc on the wife-beating primitives inhabiting NWFP and Balochistan. And Karzai can probably be just as pious in his denials of all knowledge. How long before it starts? The Afghans, remember, beat the Russians. Pakistan hasn't won a war with anyone yet. |
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