Afghan leader praises better ties with Pakistan

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Source: Associated Press

MUNICH (AP) — Afghan President Hamid Karzai called cross-border terrorism one of the greatest threats confronting his country and said improved ties with Pakistan were helping to combat the problem.

Speaking Sunday to a gathering of world leaders and top security officials, Karzai praised new U.S. administration's more regional approach to fighting terror and welcomed President Barack Obama's appointment of Richard Holbrooke as a special representative to Pakistan and Afghanistan.

"Security can ... not come to Afghanistan, or to the region, or to the international community without better coordination with our neighbors," Karzai said.

He also repeated his call to integrate moderate Taliban back into Afghan society, inviting them to participate in fall elections.



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1. Let's not surge in Afghanistan. If we do Pakistan will fight us.

That would be a stupid, ugly and deathly war that will last forever. No thanks.