KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AFP) - Afghanistan's president accused the Pakistani government of trying to turn his countrymen into "slaves", in his strongest comments yet blaming Islamabad for a wave of violence.
Hamid Karzai said he was the only person able to prevent Afghans angered by an insurgency which has claimed nearly 4,000 lives this year from "coming after" Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf.
"Pakistan still hasn't given up the hope of making us slaves. But they cannot," Karzai said in a speech at a boys' high school in the southern city of Kandahar, the birthplace of the Taliban.
"This tyranny against our people is not by the nation of Pakistan, it is by the government of Pakistan," he added to cheers from a crowd of around 500 students, teachers and local dignitaries.more:
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