Islamabad: Afghanistan and Afghan people will be standing with Pakistan and their Pakistani brethren if any one including US and India attacked Pakistan, Afghan President Hamid Karzai told a Pakistani private TV channel, during an interview.
Talking to leading anchorperson of Geo TV during an interview, which would be telecast later, Karzai said that no one including US, India and China could incite Afghanistan and Afghan people against Pakistan. He said if Pakistan was attacked even by US or India, Afghanistan will support Pakistan.
He said that though they had complaints against Pakistani establishment, but they (Afghanis) could not forget the hospitality, brotherhood and support the Pakistani brethren extended to them during their exile during the Afghan war.
Regarding his recent visit to India during which Afghanistan signed strategic partnership pact with India, he said that it had nothing to do with the recent stained relations between Pakistan and US, saying that the visit had long been planned befroe the recent Pak-US tension.
Saleem Safi, senior journalist associated with Geo News who conducted the interview, says that though Karzai, during the interview, reiterated his longstanding assertions that Taliban and al-Qaeda had safe havens and sanctuaries in Pakistan, but his tone and tenor against Pakistan was very soft. Safi said that when he asked Karzai that recently he blamed Pakistan for the murder of former Afghan president and Chairman Afghan Peace Council Burhanuddin Rabbani, he clarified that he had never blamed Pakistan for the murder of Rabbani, saying that he had only said that those who killed Rabbani had come from Pakistan.
Safi said that though Karzai repeated his allegations regarding Taliban and al-Qaeda’s safe heavens in Pakistan, but despite that his tone was very soft.
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