“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 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?”
His remarks came just two days after Afghanistan’s national security adviser, Rangeen Dadfar Spanta, called on the West to review policy toward Pakistan after leaked Pentagon documents pointed to Pakistani double-dealing.
Kabul has consistently accused Pakistan’s intelligence agency of supporting Taleban insurgents - including masterminding attacks against Afghan and US-led targets in the country. Islamabad denies the claims.
Kabul said information contained in documents released on whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks on Sunday backed its long-held position.
However, US Vice President Joe Biden said in an interview aired on Thursday that Pakistan’s intelligence agency was “changing” in its behavior toward Afghanistan, following leaked claims it aided extremists.
Meanwhile, a second US Navy sailor who went missing in a dangerous part of eastern Afghanistan was found dead and his body recovered, a US military official and Afghan officials said on Thursday.
The family of Petty Officer 3rd Class Jarod Newlove, a 25-year-old from the Seattle area, had been notified of his death, the US military official said.
Newlove and Petty Officer 2nd Class Justin McNeley went missing last Friday in Logar province. NATO recovered the body of McNeley - a 30-year-old father of two from Wheatridge, Colorado - in the area on Sunday.
Taleban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said in Kabul on Thursday that two days ago the Taleban left the “body of a dead American soldier for the US forces” to recover. The Taleban said McNeley was killed in a firefight and insurgents had captured Newlove. Mujahid offered no explanation for Newlove’s death.
NATO officials have not offered an explanation as to why the two service members were in such a dangerous part of eastern Afghanistan.
The sailors were instructors at a counterinsurgency school for Afghan security forces, according to senior military officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the case.
The school was headquartered in Kabul and had classrooms outside the capital, but they were never assigned anywhere near where McNeley’s body was recovered, officials said.
The chief of police of Logar province, Gen. Mustafa Mosseini, said coalition troops removed Newlove’s body about 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday. An anti-terrorism official in Logar province also said coalition forces had recovered a body.
Mosseini said he believed the body washed downstream after rains Tuesday night.
He noted in the past several days, the Taleban were being pressured by coalition forces in the area.
“The security was being tightened,” Mosseini said. “Searches continued from both air and the ground. Militants were moving into Pakistan.”
Mohammad Rahim Amin, the local government chief in Baraki Barak district, also said coalition forces recovered a body about 5:30 p.m. and flew it by helicopter to a coalition base in Logar province, about 60 km away.
“The coalition told our criminal police director of the district that the body belonged to the foreign soldier they were looking for,” Amin said.
