Pakistan minister Says Karzai Admits Anti-Pakistan Terror Camps in Afghanistan

Source:China View

KABUL, Aug. 1 (Xinhua) -- Pakistan's interior minister, Rahman Malik, claimed that during his recent visit to Kabul, the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, had admitted presence of terrorist camps in Afghanistan working against Pakistan.

Malik made the claim in an interview with a private Pakistani television channel Geo. "Karzai directed his security advisor and Interior Minister to destroy and close down all training camps working against Pakistan," he said while referring to his July 19 visit to Kabul.

During the visit, which Malik made as special emissary of President Asif Ali Zardari, both sides had agreed to further bolster border security so as to check Taliban insurgents, crossing over Pak-Afghan border.

They also agreed to install biometric devices at important border-crossings to discourage illegal crossing of the common frontier.

Afghanistan had previously been turning down the proposal to install such devices along the border. Later, Pakistani media lauded both Zardari and Malik for "taking a bold stand" on bilateral issues, particularly those related to war on terror.

"The Pakistani interior minister informed President Hamid Karzai that 90 percent of those carrying out terrorist activities and creating law and order situation in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP), Baluchistan, and FATA (Federally Administered Tribal Areas) were Afghan nationals," according to a Peshawar-based newspaper Mashriq.

It said, "The Kabul visit of Rahman Malik is significant because during this visit he exposed, inside Kabul, the conspiracies for destabilizing Pakistan."

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