Karzai Decries ‘Sanctuaries’ for Terrorists
Clashes and bombings killed 34 Taliban fighters and a police officer in Afghanistan, and President Hamid Karzai told the U.N. on Wednesday that terrorist sanctuaries elsewhere must be destroyed to eliminate the violence engulfing his country.
In a clear reference to sites in neighboring Pakistan, Karzai told the United Nations General Assembly in New York: “We must destroy terrorist sanctuaries beyond Afghanistan.”
Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf later responded: “The problem lies in Afghanistan, and that is creating the problem in Pakistan. I’m already doing a lot in Pakistan.”
On Wednesday, a Pakistani intelligence official said 10 tribesmen in a village near the Afghan border had been arrested on suspicion of sheltering Taliban militants. The suspects were seized in Alwara Mandi in the North Waziristan region.
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