Pak is Afghan’s twin brother: Karzai
India Blooms News Service
Islamabad, Mar 11 (IBNS) Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai said Pakistan is a ‘twin brother’ of the country and there can’t be any separation between the two neighbours.
"India is a close friend of Afghanistan but Pakistan is a twin brother of Afghanistan. We are more than twins, we are conjoined twins. There is no separation, there cannot be a separation,” Karzai said during his visit here.
However, Karzai acknowledged that India has gone ‘out of way’ t0o help Afghanistan.
“India and Afghanistan have very close friendly relations. India has gone out of its way to help Afghanistan with reconstruction and to offer Afghan youth education in India,” he said.
Meanwhile, Karzai made it clear that Afghanistan won’t tolerate any kind of terrorist activities in its soil.
"Afghanistan will not allow its territory to be used against any one of our neighbours, in particular against Pakistan. And we hope the same will reflect towards Afghanistan that Pakistani territory will not be used against Afghanistan," Karzai said.
“We will at once take action if there is any information of any country, not only India, using Afghan territory against a neighbor,” the Prez added.
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