 Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Saturday blamed unspecified “foreigners” for providing funding and weapons to fan his country’s raging insurgency.
| Unlike Pakland, which often makes the same charges, he's got evidence to back it up. Coincidentally, much of the evidence points to Pakland. |
Karzai, on a visit to launch education and power projects in the far western Badghis provincial capital of Qalay-i-Nau, said Afghans could not be held responsible for the spike in bombings and shootings during recent months. Taliban militants have claimed responsibility for many of the attacks. “You must be sure that this is not by Afghans, the killing of these people is by the enemy of Afghans,” Karzai said during a meeting with local doctors and nurses. “They are getting money, guns and conspiring through encouragement of foreigners.”
| Such Afghans as are actually involved are invariably Pashtuns... |
Karzai did not single out any country or group who he claimed was inciting the Afghan violence.
| But then he didn't have to. |
But he and other Afghan officials have repeatedly called on Pakistan to do more to stop Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked militants using Pakistani territory to base themselves for attacks in Afghanistan.
| The Paks have now reached the point where they actually can't, if they ever could... |
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