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| Pakistan seeks clarification on Karzai remarks |
| 2010-07-30 |
| [Dawn] Pakistain said Thursday it was seeking clarification of "incomprehensible" remarks by Afghanistan's Caped President Hamid Karzai calling for tougher Western action against hard boy sanctuaries. Asked by reporters about remarks made by Karzai and his national security adviser Rangeen Dadfar Spanta, foreign ministry spokesman Abdul Basit said their comments were "incomprehensible". "We have asked our ambassador in Kabul to seek clarification as to why these remarks have been made," he said. Karzai did not explicitly mention Pakistain by name, but said the war against terrorism was a war in "the sanctuaries, funding centres and training places of terrorism which are outside Afghanistan". "Whether we are able to destroy these sanctuaries or not is another question. We will try what we can.... Our international allies have this ability, but the question is why they are not doing it?" Basit said the Afghan government officials had based their remarks on thousands of secret US military files leaked earlier this week by website WikiLeaks and that the files amounted to raw intelligence and disinformation. "It is a matter of disinformation so you cannot draw right conclusions from misguided reports," he said. Kabul has consistently accused Pakistain's intelligence agency of supporting Taliban bad boys - including masterminding attacks against Afghan and US-led targets in the country. Islamabad denies the claims. Kabul said information contained in documents released on whistleblowing website WikiLeaks on Sunday backed its long-held position. A secretive US drone war routinely targets Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked groups holed up in Pakistain's lawless border districts with Afghanistan. |
| Posted by:Fred |