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Titolo: Pakistan urges UK to pull out of Afghanistan

Pakistan urges UK to pull out of Afghanistan
By Isambard Wilkinson in Islamabad
Last Updated: 7:11am BST 03/08/2007
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Britain and America have been urged to prepare an exit strategy from
Afghanistan by sources within the Pakistan government as the number of
fatalities among Nato forces fighting the Taliban grows.
 
Khurshid Kasuri: Britain 
'fought three Afghan wars'
 
The remarks, by a senior foreign ministry official, reflect the growing
belief in Islamabad that Nato is as much to blame for the endurance of the
Islamic rebel army as Pakistan, which has been accused by the United
States of failing to destroy Taliban training camps on its border. 
Nato has had to review tactics after a series of blunders in which large
numbers of civilians were killed in raids intended to hit Taliban fighters.
The Afghan government has claimed that the attacks acted as a recruiting
sergeant for the rebels seeking to restore a hardline Islamic regime.
Khurshid Kasuri, Pakistan's foreign minister, said yesterday that Nato
should consider holding talks with Taliban leaders.
"They should take a holistic approach - the military is an essential
component but it has to be coupled with a political process and
development," he said.
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Mr Kasuri added that the upper house of the Afghan parliament had shown
the way "by speaking about the need to talk to some of the people who have
taken up arms".
Mr Kasuri said that Britain in particular should know the limitations of a
purely military approach in Afghanistan.
"Britain has a good experience of the country, after all they fought three
Afghan wars," he said. "Surely they have learnt from that."
In recent weeks Pakistani and US officials have been embroiled in an angry
row sparked by an American intelligence report that claimed that al-Qa'eda
had begun regrouping in Pakistan's border region with Afghanistan.
Relations between the US and Pakistan, a key ally in the war on terror,
have also been soured by the refusal of a US counter-terror official to
rule out military strikes in Pakistan.
Earlier this week Barack Obama, the Democratic presidential contender,
threatened to launch US military strikes against al-Qa'eda on Pakistani
soil if he were elected president.
Mr Kasuri accused Mr Obama of "trying to advance a political career by
indulging in inflammatory rhetoric".
The diplomatic rift with America has also widened since President George W
Bush said that a peace agreement signed between pro-Taliban tribesmen and
the Pakistan government in North Waziristan had been a "failure".
Mr Kasuri admitted that the deal had not been a total success but it was
weaning some people from the extremists. "We are still trying to isolate
extremists by talking," he said.
A peace jirga or council of Afghan and Pakistani tribal leaders and
politicians is due to be held next week in Kabul in an attempt to resolve
differences between the Afghan government of Hamid Karzai and Pakistan.
 
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سحابة سامة ضخمة تهدد ملياري إنسان
قالت صحيفة تايمز البريطانية إن سحابة سامة ضخمة قد تتسبب في فيضانات وجفاف
يتضرر منها مليارا شخص بجنوب آسيا, وأشارت إلى أن السحابة التي تعرف "سحابة
آسيا البنية" تمثل غطاء واسعا من الضباب الدخاني يخيم فوق جزء كبير من المنطقة
ويستطيع المسافر جوا رؤيته.
-- 
R.

 ويستطيع المسافر جوا رؤيته.
Non capisco l'arabo, purtroppo.
Tradurresti, per favore?

 Tradurresti, per favore?
Dici che se chiedo a sergio di tradurmi l'inglese... :-)
-- 
R.