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India-Pakistan
Kasuri rejects KarzaiÂ’s allegations
2006-05-20
Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri on Friday rejected Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s statement in which he had accused Pakistan of training militants and sending them into Afghanistan. “I am saddened over whatever he (Karzai) has said, but still it is not clear whether he had said that,” Kasuri said, in response to Karzai’s recent assertions. Kasuri said that a tripartite commission was in place and if the Afghan president had any information regarding cross border infiltration and presence of Osama Bin Laden and Mulla Omer in Pakistan, he should share this information with the commission in order that these problems be solved bilaterally.

Kasuri also ruled out handing over of Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan to the United States or any other country for investigation purposes. “Yes. We are under a lot of pressure on the issue of Dr AQ Khan, but will not surrender,” the foreign minister said, while concluding a two-day debate on foreign policy in the Senate. Opposition senators had accused the government of taking a “U-turn” on foreign policy after 9/11 under US pressure and of compromising national interests, especially those related to Afghanistan, Kashmir and AQ Khan.
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