http://www.news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1084842003 Karzai accuses Pakistan over terrorism
GETHIN CHAMBERLAIN DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENT
HAMID Karzai, the Afghan president, yesterday accused Pakistan of harbouring terrorists and undermining his country’s chances of a peaceful future.
In a lecture at the Parliament Hall at St Andrews University, Mr Karzai claimed it was impossible to prevent terrorists returning to Afghanistan unless Pakistan co-operated sincerely with the Afghan government.
And he said governments of countries in the region had to stop using extremism as instruments of policy.
"The co-operation in the anti-terrorist campaign has to be between nation states," he said. "I don’t think that Afghanistan can do much on its own to prevent the resurgence of, the regrouping, the reorganisation, the re-equipment and refinancing of the Taleban without co-operation in the region, and to be more specific, I don’t think we can deter terrorism or stop it rising up again unless Pakistan co-operates with us, sincerely and effectively."
He said there were religious schools in Pakistan, known as madrasas, where pupils were being schooled in the art of terrorism.
"There are places disguised as madrasas that are teaching explosives, how to use a Kalashnikov, how to plant a bomb, how to be hateful to people, how to spread hatred, how to pass hurt. I have told the Pakistani president that we cannot do without their help and, of course, without the help of the rest of the world.
What a fantastic idea!!!
Giving money to a military dictator who seized power through a coup & then re-wrote the constitution to give himself ultimate authority.
I was hoping -- post 9/11 -- that we were done with this stuff.
And don't get me started on the Saudis..........