Death to Pakistan" --Afghans demonstrate against Pakistan

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KABUL, Afghanistan - About 1,000 Afghans shouting "Death to Pakistan" demonstrated in front of Pakistan's embassy in Kabul Wednesday, blaming the neighboring country for some of the bloodiest border clashes in years.

Many of the demonstrators were from the eastern province of Paktia, where the fighting between Afghan and Pakistani troops killed at least 13 Afghan border guards and civilians so far this week.

The demonstrators carried banners and shouted "Death to the ISI! Death to Musharraf," a reference to Pakistan's intelligence agency and President Gen. Pervez Musharraf.

Afghan police wearing riot gear guarded the embassy in downtown Kabul. There were no reports of violence.

"We've run out of patience with Pakistan," said Sultan Uddin, 50, from the Jaji district of Paktia. "We're requesting President (Hamid) Karzai to give us weapons and remove the border police. We know how to deal with Pakistan."

Tensions have been running high between Afghanistan and Pakistan over controlling their 1,510-mile border, and stemming the flow of Taliban and al-Qaida militants who stage attacks inside Afghanistan.

Afghan officials said this week's border clashes began when Pakistani soldiers entered Afghan territory. Pakistan said Afghan soldiers started the clashes by firing on border posts.

On Monday, unidentified militants killed a U.S. soldier and a Pakistani soldier after a meeting in a Pakistani border region between officials from Pakistan, Afghanistan and the NATO peacekeeping force. The meeting was meant to cool tensions over the border fighting. Elsewhere, militants attacked U.S.-led coalition forces and Afghan border police in southern Afghanistan, killing one coalition soldier, officials said Wednesday. The soldier's nationality was not released.

The combined patrol was returning from providing medical assistance to more than 600 Afghans in Kandahar province when it was attacked Tuesday about 25 miles southwest of Qalat in Zabul province, a coalition statement said.

The death brings the number of foreign troops killed in Afghanistan this year to 50, including at least 25 American soldiers.

An official with Afghanistan's intelligence service, meanwhile, said three other Taliban commanders were killed alongside the militants' top field commander, Mullah Dadullah, in an operation in Helmand province over the weekend. One of them was Dadullah's brother, identified as Mullah Shah Mansoor, the official said.

The three other commanders killed were among five Taliban released from Afghan prisons in March in exchange for a kidnapped Italian journalist, the official said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.

NATO has said Dadullah was killed after he moved into Afghanistan from his "sanctuary" — a reference to Pakistan.

In the southern city of Kandahar, health ministry director Qayum Pukhla said six civilians were wounded after soldiers from NATO's International Security Assistance Force fired on them while driving through the city in a convoy.

Kandahar Gov. Asadullah Khalid confirmed residents were wounded by troops but said he did not know how many.
NATO's ISAF said it was looking into the report and had no immediate comment.

In Helmand province, coalition and Afghan soldiers exchanged gunfire with suspected Taliban militants in the Kajaki district. An airstrike destroyed the militants' position, the coalition said. Two fighters were detained.
"A precision strike was conducted when it was obvious the militants were well-armed and had no intentions of surrendering," coalition spokesman Maj. Chris Belcher said.

Coalition and Afghan forces also detained what they called a suspected trainer of suicide bombers at a compound in Khost province late Tuesday. In Helmand province, the Taliban attacked an Afghan army convoy in Sangin district Tuesday night, said Izatullah Khan, the district chief. Two soldiers were wounded, and three Taliban were killed in the ensuing battle.

exactly my point.

karzai is just a puppet,dont blame him for everything.there was a time when our i.s.i's,j.c.o level officers would deal with the likes of hamid karzai now he has become a president

He is just being stupid. He does not have any idea about the problems of Afghani people. I very much doubt that he even understands how the people in Afghanistan are living. For crying out loud, he spent a great deal of his time in Pakistan, and now he wants to create trouble for his old country. tsk tsk tsk. He needs to understand that there are over 2.5 millions Afghans living in Pakistan sending money over to his country.

I think Pakistan should follow IRan, and kick all Afghans out of Pakistan (My apologies to those Afghans who are nice people. I am sure majority of them are, but I think its time to either stop your brothern, or let us deal with all of you.

sharmili:

hate is a very strong word. You can't fix anythig by hating it. Why do you hate them?

why do i hate them?
hahhahha
thats so funny when u ask this

veer_zaara:

sharmili:

hate is a very strong word. You can't fix anythig by hating it. Why do you hate them?

why do i hate them?
hahhahha
thats so funny when u ask this

Why is it funny?

Well as a Push-toon ( crap how do u spell this)our forefather mush have pushed alot of things to get that name, i second the point of push-ing all Afghans back to Afghanistan. umm do that include me too as my ancestors also came from there a long long time ago.

xtreme u r something
now pushing back the afghanis hardly looks like a solution,most of them are anyway push-toons as xtreme put it.they are not the trouble makers,the real menace are the non pushto afghanis,who live along the iranian borders and are sadly backed by iran

non-pushtoons have always been the trouble maker. Be it that they envy India or be it that they love Iran because it is a Shia state.

But recently, Push-toons have been pushing the nerves of Pakistani Govt ( I had to say it this way). It will eventually turn out bad for them.

Nah it will turn out bad for the govt i bet , as the govt have been push-ing us since long now.

There is lot of Push-ing going on here. Allah khair karay.

Yar pushtoons wel dont know how to spell it right any ways are quite peaceful and nice peeps but Zia-ul-haq pushed him islamic agenda on us and now we got all those talebans.

Pashtun's

The Taliban are destroyers of everything

They destroyed some of the most beautiful Historic Buddhist Carvings in the side of the mountains, which were over a thousand years old

yeh ok Pashtun or pukhtoon or pushtoon i guess all ca be correct and may be some more ,
yo afghan war changed our soiety forever and for worse.

Pathan or Pukhtoon is the word Indians and Punjabi pakistanis use.

Pashtun is the real word

Xtreme Its so bad what happened the society was torn to shreds. Foreigners evenn helped the taliban too
Uzbeks etc..

Nah i think i am from the Pukhtun type of lingo guy not the real word u described ny ways thats not the issue.
and as for America issue well it doesn looks good for them here either.

EH just look around and see why

yup they are not on a honeymoon in afghanistan but taliban issue is not dead yet,they are getting more and more support not only in afghanistan but on our side of the border as well.