Kabul, November 11: Afghan Foreign Minister Rangin Dadfar Spanta has strongly criticized the continuing Western interference in Afghanistan’s internal affairs.
On Tuesday, Spanta told a press conference in Kabul that ‘unproductive interference’ by the US and Europe in the make-up of President Hamid Karzai’s new cabinet would hurt the feelings of the Afghan people.
“There is a double-standard in their politics,” Spanta said.
The US and other Western countries have expressed concern over the role some warlords could play in Karzai’s future government.
Karzai named Marshal Mohammad Qasim Fahim, a powerful Tajik warlord, as his vice presidential running mate in his re-election campaign for the August election.
The foreign minister also accused the occupying forces of working with some troublemakers in the country.
“To say that our warlords are good and the warlords of Hamid Karzai are bad is dangerous politics,” DPA news agency quoted Spanta as saying.
US and British officials have frequently held secret talks with the Taliban militants and drug traffickers in Afghanistan since the occupation of the country began in 2001.
—–Agencies