Pakistani PM chides Karzai over remarks

[Majnun]

ISLAMABAD, July 16 (Reuters) - Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani chided Afghanistan's president on Wednesday over his remarks accusing Pakistan of a spate of terrorist attacks, saying he wants a stable government in Kabul.

Afghanistan and Pakistan are important U.S. allies in the Washington's fight against militancy.

But their ties, already dogged by an old dispute over their border, have worsened in recent months because of Afghan accusations of Pakistani involvement in the rising tide of violence in Afghanistan.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Monday Pakistani agents were behind recent violence, including a suicide car bomb attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul last week that killed 58 people.

Subsequently, the Afghan cabinet suspended a series of meetings with Pakistan on border cooperation and bilateral and regional economic cooperation, all scheduled for coming weeks.

"Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani has strongly condemned the Afghan president's statement," said a statement released after Gilani met his cabinet in the eastern city of Lahore.

"Pakistan has provided all-out support for the establishment of stable government in Afghanistan."

Afghan and NATO officials blame a sharp rise in violence in southern and eastern Afghanistan on Pakistan for failing to keep pressure on militants while conducting talks to persuade some Taliban factions to halt attacks.

Pakistani officials say Karzai has tried to deflect criticism of his own government's failures to contain the insurgency nearly seven years after U.S.-backed forces drove the Taliban militia from power.

The last part was especially true.

 

[IceCold]

Nothing serious to me. The same old stuff from our side. We need to change this pathetic tone of ours so that we can sound others that we mean business too.

 

[araz]

Nothing serious to me. The same old stuff from our side. We need to change this pathetic tone of ours so that we can sound others that we mean business too.

Icecold.
we can only mean business when we are independant. We are financially and mentally dependant on the developed World and consequently cannot afford to annoy them too much.Where all this aid has gone and what good it has done to the ordinary person is a subject that I dont have te time to go into as it depresses me too much.
We are so pathetic that they are telling the world that they have given us 10 Billion in Aid accepting that nearly 6-7 Billion was rent for services utilized ,and 20-30% of the rest went to local contractors which were imposed upon us by Uncle Sam. we have no one who can stand up and call them hypocrats and a bunch of liars!!!
waSalam
Araz