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Taliban attacks `not serious concern`: Karzai
Kabul, Aug 02: Afghan President Hamid Karzai today said a renewed wave of Taliban attacks and the reported regrouping of militants were `not a serious concern` as he called for Afghanistan and Pakistan to fight terrorism together.
Kabul, Aug 02: Afghan President Hamid Karzai today said a renewed wave of Taliban attacks and the reported regrouping of militants were "not a serious concern" as he called for Afghanistan and Pakistan to fight terrorism together.
"I don't think this is a serious concern, I am not
worried about that. The Taliban have no place in the Afghan
people, that I know for a fact," Karzai said.
"What is important for us in this region, especially for Afghanistan and Pakistan, is to fight terrorism together, and to fight it in earnest, to fight it in truth and to finish this menace," he said.
Relations between Afghanistan and Pakistan, both members of the US-led "war on terror," were strained in the past month over allegations that Pakistani troops had intruded into Afghan territory and a mob attack on the Pakistani embassy in Kabul.
Afghanistan has also repeatedly said that Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters were crossing from Pakistan to launch attacks against US-led coalition and government troops.
Karzai said it would take time to rebuild the police force and afghan national army, which currently numbers around 5,500 out of a planned eventual strength of 70,000.
"Now we hope that with the possibility of new US assistance and other countries' assistance, that this process will be speeded, that we will have more of the national army and the police force."
Bureau Report
"What is important for us in this region, especially for Afghanistan and Pakistan, is to fight terrorism together, and to fight it in earnest, to fight it in truth and to finish this menace," he said.
Relations between Afghanistan and Pakistan, both members of the US-led "war on terror," were strained in the past month over allegations that Pakistani troops had intruded into Afghan territory and a mob attack on the Pakistani embassy in Kabul.
Afghanistan has also repeatedly said that Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters were crossing from Pakistan to launch attacks against US-led coalition and government troops.
Karzai said it would take time to rebuild the police force and afghan national army, which currently numbers around 5,500 out of a planned eventual strength of 70,000.
"Now we hope that with the possibility of new US assistance and other countries' assistance, that this process will be speeded, that we will have more of the national army and the police force."
Bureau Report