Afghan President Hamid Karzai has advised Pakistan Government and military to ‘reform themselves.’
Karzai, speaking at a ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of Kabul University, said that Afghanistan make a distinction between Pakistan nation and their government, adding that their government and military should reform themselves.
According to the Express Tribune, Karzai’s recent verbal onslaught has sparked anti-Pakistan sentiments in Afghanistan.
People took to the streets in Kabul and other major cities and burned the Pakistani flag over the Afghan government’s claim that Pakistani forces have constructed four check posts in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar and Kunar provinces in the east.
The allegation has been rejected by the Pakistani military and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
According to the report, on May 4, Karzai lashed out at Islamabad during a press conference in Kabul, accusing it of the recent border clashes in an attempt to get the Durand Line recognised as the official border between the two countries.
In a veiled reference to Pakistan, Karzai said the Taliban should use their guns not against Afghan forces but against “the place that is hostile to Afghanistan.”
Karzai said his government has ordered the removal of the “checkpoints set up by the Pakistani military” on the Afghan side of the Durand Line, the report added.
———ANI