End operations in Afghanistan, Karzai tells NATO

End operations in Afghanistan, Karzai tells NATO
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Summary Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Saturday told NATO to stop their operations in our land.

Karzais comments came after a week in which his relative was killed in a raid by foreign forces and he rejected an apology by the US commander of troops General David Petraeus for the deaths of nine children in a NATO strike.I would like to ask NATO and the US with honour and humbleness and not with arrogance to stop their operations in our land, Karzai said in Pashto as he visited the dead childrens relatives in Kunar province, eastern Afghanistan. We are very tolerant people but now our tolerance has run out, he added.In an apparent reference to neighbour Pakistan, the Western-backed Karzai said international forces should go and fight this war where we have showed them (it is) over the last nine years. Insurgents have hideouts in Pakistans lawless border regions. This war is not in our land, Karzai added.

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