Kabul, Oct 18: Afghanistan today rejected Pakistani claims that India had set up terrorist training camps in its territory, local television reported. "The Afghan deputy interior minister, and acting interior minister, Hilaluddin Hilal rejected the Pakistani Interior Minister's claims that India has terror camps inside Afghanistan," Kabul TV said. "Afghanistan is fighting terrorists and won't allow anybody to use Afghan territory for terrorist purposes," it quoted Hilal as saying. "There are coalition forces fighting terrorism in Afghanistan; if there are any terrorist camps in Afghanistan, whether they belong to India or any other country they cannot be kept a secret from them," he said. "Afghanistan is fighting any sort of terrorism itself and Afghanistan wants better and friendly relations with its neighbours."
Pakistani Interior Minister Faisal Saleh Hayat on Thursday claimed terrorist training camps had been set up by Indian consulates in the Afghan cities of Herat in the west, Kandahar in the south and Jalalabad in the east.
Bureau Report