FO rejects Afghan army chief’s allegations

Gen Sher Mohammad Karimi Pakistan is complicit in US drone strikes.


Kamran Yousaf/afp July 04, 2013
General Sher Mohammad Karimi PHOTO: REUTERS

ISLAMABAD:


Foreign ministry rejected allegations by the Afghan Army chief that Taliban were under its control and it could end the war ‘in weeks’ if it was serious about peace.


In an interview with BBC on Wednesday, Gen Sher Mohammad Karimi accused Pakistan of ‘controlling Taliban’ adding that Pakistan could do far more to promote a nascent peace process.

He said Pakistan is complicit in US drone strikes despite its denunciations of the anti-militant campaign. “The US has not started drone attacks on their own,” he said, arguing that Islamabad had “given the lists” of militants it wants taken out.

The allegations that Pakistan ‘controls’ the Taliban and has ‘unleashed’ them on Afghanistan have no basis, said foreign ministry spokesperson Aizaz Ahmed Chaudhry.

“We reject them categorically. Pakistan has exercised extreme restraint in the face of highly provocative language used by the Afghan civil and military officials over the last few months, not to mention some totally fabricated accusations,” he added.

The spokesman said such comments also reflected ‘insincerity on part of some elements in Afghan government.’

Published in The Express Tribune, July 4th, 2013.

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