Zalmai Khalilzad the former US ambassador to Afghanistan, in an exclusive interview with TOLOnews highlighted the need to broaden relations between Kabul and Washington.
"While I was serving as ambassador of the US here, I went to Pakistain and asked General Parvez Musharaf what the logic was behind allowing the Taliban to use Pakistain's soil to attack Afghanistan, the United States and US troops here," Mr Khalilzad said. "In response he said:
where are the Taliban? They are not in Pakistain. Give me their address and we will go and arrest them."
Earlier General David Petraeus, the top US commander of coalition forces in Afghanistan, said the Taliban would fight back to take control of the areas they have lost to foreign forces.
But the US four-star general emphasised that the Taliban could not take the areas back from forces.
Insurgents have recently doubled their attacks in particular on civilian locations that have led to the death of scores of civilians.
Joint clean-up offensives under the lead of Afghan cops have been launched almost nationwide to prepare the ground for a smooth transition which is due to begin in months.
President
Hamid Maybe I'll join the TalibanKarzai
... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a
Pashtunface on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use...
recently named a number of provinces and districts where the first stages of transition would happen.
Nato-led coalition forces numbering at 152,000 with bulk of them US service members have been fighting a growing insurgency for nearly a decade now.