Qureshi asks Afghanistan to deploy forces in border areas

Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has proposed Afghanistan to deploy its forces at Pak-Afghan border to curb terror activities.

The statement by Shah Mahmood Qureshi, coming during late Wednesday’s U.N. Security Council session on Afghanistan’s future.

“Pakistan will not allow its territory to be used against other countries. However, no foreign troops will be allowed to operate in side Pakistan,” Qureshi told the 15-nation council.

“The new democratic government in Pakistan cannot but be sensitive to the sentiments of our people.”

Afghan Foreign Minister Rangin Dadfar Spanta described the car bombing as another “in the succession of increasingly brutal attacks that targeted the people of Afghanistan, the region, and the world.”

He said the counterterrorism efforts, if they are to succeed in reducing the escalating violence, must now be joined by greater efforts to eliminate “root causes” of narcotics, corruption and poverty.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s special envoy to Afghanistan, Kai Eide, told the council Afghanistan was experiencing “an unprecedented level of insurgent and terrorist activities.”