Finding Osama in Pakistan proved war on terror was waged against wrong country: Karzai

Continuing with his anti-Pakistan rhetoric, former Afghan president Hamid Karzai on Friday said finding Osama bin Laden in Pakistan proved the war on terror was waged against ‘the wrong country’.

Speaking at the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit in India, Karzai said the death of al Qaeda founder in Pakistan shows that Nato and allied forces were wrong in entering Afghan soil.

Renowned Indian journalist Barkha Dutt, who was chairing Karzai’s talk, tweeted his statements.

According to an NDTV report, a former boss – in an apparent puncture that a fight should have been waged in Pakistan instead - said US should have left to a sanctuaries of terrorism, not Afghanistan. Karzai has been harsh in his critique of Pakistan during his prolonged order and has continued to do so even after stepping down.

Following a Sep 11 attack, US-led infantry intervened pounded Afghanistan to idle al Qaeda and mislay Taliban from energy in a country. The arch of a apprehension network, however, was killed as partial of a highly sly operation in Abbottabad in May 2011, finale a biggest manhunt in history.

“My position opposite certain elements of US and Nato participation was principled,” Karzai, who has mostly pronounced a fight on apprehension should not be opposite Afghanistan, clarified.

“I stood adult opposite a US since we wanted them to scold their poise with Afghanistan.”

Rejecting warnings by his one-time reflection General (retd) Pervez Musharraf, Karzai reiterated Afghanistan would not concede itself to turn a bridgehead in a substitute fight between India and Pakistan after a approaching depart of US-led troops.

“Afghanistan will not concede substitute fight between India and Pakistan on a dirt – and I’m certain India won’t do that,” Karzai pronounced firmly, adding, “India will be there to teach a children, build dams, not to salary a substitute fight opposite Pakistan – so I’ll give a soundness to Musharraf that he did not worry.”

In an talk progressing this week, Musharraf warned that Pakistan would demeanour to use racial Pashtuns to opposite if India tries to grasp a idea of formulating an “anti-Pakistan Afghanistan”. India and Pakistan have prolonged indicted any other of regulating substitute army to try to benefit change in Afghanistan though a former boss deserted a probability of this.

Thanking India for participating in ‘every step’ of rebuilding Afghanistan as it suffered from invasions, unfamiliar interferences and extremism, Karzai said, “a era of forward-looking immature Afghans have emerged and interjection a good understanding to India carrying helped us in this regard.”

Further, commenting on Pakistan-Afghanistan relations, Karzai said, “we will rivet with Pakistan as a sovereign, eccentric state conducting a possess unfamiliar process and that will not be compromised.”

Karzai’s matter comes during a essential time after a newly inaugurated Afghan President Ashraf Ghani visited Pakistan and as Nato’s fight goal ends in December.

Pakistan was one of usually 3 countries that recognized a Taliban regime that ruled in Kabul before being defeated in late 2001 after a US-led advance in a arise of a Sep 11 attacks. The Taliban’s rain led to Karzai’s designation as Afghan personality and he remained in energy until stepping down as boss progressing this year.