Afghan President Hamid Karzai asked his Western allies to move against the Taliban in Pakistan. He said the fight against terrorists should focus on their training, funding and sanctuaries outside Afghanistan.
Asked about Pakistan's alleged support for the Taliban, he suggested the West could strike, adding: The question now is why they are not taking action? He also warned the Wikileaks dossier endangered Afghan informants' lives. He also warned the Wikileaks dossier endangered Afghan informants' lives.
Wikileaks said it had removed the names of informants contained in the US military files that it published, but it has since emerged that hundreds of names have been exposed online. The classified documents on the website also carried allegations that Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence spy agency was secretly helping the Afghan insurgency.
Mr Karzai told a news conference on Thursday in Kabul: ‘The war against terrorism is not in the villages or houses of Afghanistan... but in the sanctuaries, sources of funding and training [of terrorism] and they lie outside Afghanistan. Asked about claims of support from Islamabad for the Taliban, he said: ‘It is a different question whether Afghanistan has the ability to tackle this, but our allies have this capability; the question now is why they are not taking action?’ The US is already directly targeting al-Qaeda and Taliban militants in north-west Pakistan, close to the Afghan border, through air strikes from drone aircraft.