| Afghanistan on Sunday denied allegations it was involved in the unrest in Waziristan and Swat, saying that it would not let Afghan soil be used for anti-Pakistan activities. “We will not allow anyone to use our soil against Pakistan,” President Hamid Karzai’s spokesman Humayun Hamidzada told Daily Times, a day after the NWFP caretaker chief minister hinted at the possible involvement of India or Afghanistan in terrorist activities in the Swat region. “Using terrorism as a foreign policy tool will serve nobody’s interests; such a practice is bound to backfire,” Hamidzada said. Terrorists and fundamentalists, he added, posed a common threat to the two neighbouring countries. “Therefore, we are willing to continue working with our Pakistani friends to fight terrorism,” he said. He said the government and people of Afghanistan felt sorry for the incidents of terrorism in Pakistan. Hamidzada also referred to Karzai’s recent interview in which the Afghan president had regretted bomb attacks in Pakistan. |