Afghan President Hamid Karzai Thursday urged his Western allies to destroy militants' sanctuaries in neighboring Pakistan after thousands of secret US files were leaked. “The time has come for our international allies to know that the war against terrorism is not in Afghanistan's homes and villages,” Karzai told a news conference in the Afghan capital Kabul. “But rather this war is in the sanctuaries, funding centers and training places of terrorism which are outside Afghanistan. Whether we are able to destroy these sanctuaries or not is another question. We will try what we can... our international allies have this ability, but the question is why they are not doing it?” Pakistan said it was seeking clarification of “incomprehensible” remarks by Karzai. Asked by reporters about remarks made by Karzai and his national security adviser Rangeen Dadfar Spanta, foreign ministry spokesman Abdul Basit said their comments were “incomprehensible”. “We have asked our ambassador in Kabul to seek clarification as to why these remarks have been made,” he said. Karzai did not explicitly mention Pakistan by name. Basit said the Afghan government officials had based their remarks on thousands of secret US military files leaked earlier this week by website WikiLeaks and that the files amounted to raw intelligence and disinformation. “It is a matter of disinformation so you cannot draw right conclusions from misguided reports,” he said.
