Afghanistan's new leader Hamid Karzai bitterly condemned the havoc that Taliban wreaked on Afghanistan and urged the international community to remain engaged after the war on terrorism ends.
The international community saw the consequences of neglecting Afghanistan, Karzai told reporters, a day after meeting with the former Afghan king. He said he didn't know where Osama bin Laden or Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar were, but said terrorists and their supporters would not be welcome in the new Afghanistan.
“There's no way we can allow them to stay. They've killed our people, they have destroyed our land. We will finish them to the end,” Karzai said. He said he envisioned an international peacekeeping force of about 3,000 to 5,000 troops that would be authorised to use force not only in self defence, but to keep the peace.
“If it takes the use of force to keep the peace, why not?”, He said. He spoke to reporters after getting the blessings of Afghanistan's former king and before he was set to take office on Saturday as the head of an interim government that will rule Afghanistan following the ouster of Taliban.
Today, the second day of his visit to Rome, Karzai met with the US ambassador to Italy and was scheduled to hold talks with Italian foreign minister, Renato Ruggiero. Bureau Report