{"id":417,"date":"2007-05-09T10:32:11","date_gmt":"2007-05-09T10:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/afrikaansenuus.co.za\/?p=417"},"modified":"2007-05-09T10:32:11","modified_gmt":"2007-05-09T10:32:11","slug":"force-cannot-solve-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/?p=417","title":{"rendered":"Force ‘cannot solve Afghanistan’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pakistan’s Foreign Minister, Khurshid Kasuri, said his country had deployed more troops and suffered more casualties than international forces in its attempts to secure the border. <\/font><\/p>\n

"The onus for border control cannot be placed on Pakistan alone," he told the news conference. <\/font><\/p>\n

"We expect a matching response from Afghanistan as each side must play its due role to combat the menace of terrorism." <\/font><\/p>\n

Pakistan has suggested fencing and mining parts of the border to stop militants crossing. <\/font><\/p>\n

However, the Afghan government opposes this on the grounds that it will divide families within the Pashtun tribal belt. <\/font><\/p>\n

It and Western military commanders have accused Pakistan of allowing pro-Taleban militants to operate in its border tribal regions. <\/font><\/p>\n

Mr Scheffer’s visit is seen as part of a wider effort to ensure Pakistan’s support in the conflict in Afghanistan against the Taleban and the wider "war on terror". \t\t \t<\/font> \t\t \t \t <\/div>\n

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Nato head Jaap de Hoop Scheffer has said he believes there is no military solution to the Afghan situation. <\/div>\n

 
Mr Scheffer was speaking during talks in Pakistan on ways of containing the Taleban insurgency on the Pakistan-Afghan border. <\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Violence in Afghanistan has returned to levels not seen since the Taleban were ousted in 2001. <\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

More than 4,000 people were killed last year in fighting between militants and international-led forces. <\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

"It is my strong opinion that the final answer in Afghanistan will not be a military one and cannot be a military one," the Nato secretary general told a joint news conference after talks with President Pervez Musharraf in Islamabad. <\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

"The final answer in Afghanistan is called reconstruction, development and nation-building."<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[21098,427],"class_list":["post-417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c51-international-news","tag-s19-english","tag-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}