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| Top Afghan Security Chief Calls for Elimination of Terrorist Havens |
| 2014-07-02 |
| [Tolo News] The Afghan National Security Advisor on Monday called on Islamabad to deny safe havens to terrorist groups inside Pakistain and adopt a non-interference policy towards Kabul. Dr. Rangin Dadfar Spanta, who visited Islamabad last Thursday, told news hounds at the Presidential Palace that he had handed over a request letter to the Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... from President Hamid Maybe I'll join the TalibanKarzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtunface on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... , calling on Pakistain to not be selective in the fight against terrorist groups. President Karzai's two other main requests in the letter were ending the cross-border shelling and release of Taliban prisoners in Pakistain's custody who are willing to engage in a grinding of the peace processor with the Afghan government. Pakistain had released nearly 20 Taliban prisoners earlier this year, including Taliban's second-in-command, Mullah Baradar. The releases have not resulted in any breakthrough in the grinding of the peace processor and Islamabad has stopped releasing more prisoners. Spanta's visit to Islamabad comes after a delegation of Pak officials visited Kabul last week as a push to ease the relationship between the two neighbors, who both suffer from hard boyz based in the border regions. "Afghanistan is looking for a deep, sincere and broad friendship with Pakistain which should be based on good-neighborly relations," Spanta said. "We want a comprehensive strategic relationship with Pakistain as well." The National Security Advisor, however, said that preconditions of Kabul are a "non-interference policy" of Pakistain towards Afghanistan and the "elimination of terrorist safe havens" inside Pakistain. The Afghan official said that no country can use terrorism as an instrument of foreign policy towards another country, adding that if Pakistain accepts the Afghan preconditions, Kabul will also do its best to help Pakistain in their fight against Pak Taliban. |
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