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| Afghanistan/South Asia |
| Islamabad, Kabul to fight terror |
| 2004-11-06 |
| President Pervez Musharraf on Saturday pledged to fight terrorism "offensively" and promised full cooperation with Afghanistan during a visit to the Afghan capital. Musharraf is the first head of state to visit Kabul since Hamid Karzai's landslide victory in the October 9 polls, where he received a red-carpet welcome. Musharraf said the destinies of Afghanistan and Pakistan were interlinked and both had to succeed in the war on terror. "We are together in the fight against terrorism, and we will fight it offensively and cooperate in all manners to succeed," Musharraf told a joint press conference with Karzai at heavily guarded presidential palace in Kabul. "The success of fighting terrorism in Afghanistan is Pakistan's success, and our success in Pakistan will be Afghanistan's success, so therefore,... we both have to succeed for the sake of Afghanistan and Pakistan," Musharraf said and added: "I was telling my brother, there is no doubt in our minds that we both have to succeed." "There is tremendous cooperation going on and we would like this cooperation to continue and be more extensive," he said. "The intelligence side must cooperate with each other in locating and identifying areas of successful cooperation." Musharraf said Pakistan's efforts to prevent militants crossing the border to disrupt the Afghan polls had helped the elections pass off smoothly and the policy would continue. "We blocked the routes. We used the army, we used the frontier corps to establish special blocks so that there was no interference by the terrorists," he said. "We will block the border and operate against all the groups that are there in Pakistan," he said. "And if the same is done here in Afghanistan, I am sure we will be victorious in denying easy movement to create trouble in each other's countries." |
| Posted by:Fred |