Well said Zaavia and Spock :k:
Zakk, KHARzai was installed as an American Puppet. Now that he is doing the bidding of the Northern Alliance, effectively makes him a fool. Of all the cities in Afghanistan, Kabul is one place where Karzai’s government actually exists and to be unable to control the mobs, is simply unacceptable. He is not the most powerful Pakhtun in Afghanistan, this event proves it all.
The mobs should have realized that their nation has been consistantly taking steps backwards as the world- including Pakistan, is moving ahead. In order for all Afghanis to prosper, they must end all disputes and bickering both within (Pakhtuns vs. non), and outside (Blaming Pakistan, Iran). I thought that Karzai could bring this reconciliation but this event proves otherwise.
More news, relevent parts in bold:
Pakistan closes embassy in Afghanistan
Tue Jul 8, 9:50 AM ET Add World - AFP to My Yahoo!
KABUL (AFP) - Islamabad has closed its embassy in Afghanistan (news - web sites) after a 500-strong mob protesting against alleged border incursions by Pakistani troops attacked and ransacked the premises, ambassador Rustam Shah Mohmmand said.
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“I have closed the mission unless the Afghan government compensates, number one; unless the Afghan government apologises, number two; unless the Afghan government gives tangible concrete guarantees for the protection of the mission in the future, the mission will remain closed,” he told reporters standing amid smashed glass in the embassy.
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In Islamabad, the Pakistani foreign ministry summoned the Afghan Charge d’Affair and lodged a strong protest against the attack.
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The ministry said in a statement that Islamabad told Kabul’s representative that “Afghan authorities were in a position to prevent the attack”.**
It demanded the Afghan government hold an inquiry to assign responsibility for the “deliberate failure of the security forces” to prevent the assault and to identify and to punish the perpetrators.
The ambassador said: "We hold the Afghan government responsible for what has happened for** the fourth time in 15 years.**
“We hold the Afghan government squarely responsible not only for negligence but for stage-managing this show, for creating the environment in which such an attack would take place and then failure to act swiftly to prevent the damage,” he said.
The Pakistan-based private news agency Afghan Islamic Press said the Afghan foreign ministry later issued a statement condemning the attack and announcing compensation for the loss.
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“The Afghan government created the conditions under which this was made possible,” Mohmmand said referring to a speech by President Hamid Karzai on Sunday.
“It was managed because after the speeches on the 6th of July we were expecting to be attacked.” **
Karzai said Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf had “made certain remarks about Afghanistan which have saddened me”.
Musharraf reportedly said in an interview while in Europe that the Kabul government was not in full control of the country and called for greater representation for minorities.
“Afghanistan neither interferes in anyone’s affairs, nor accepts the interference of others in its own affairs,” Karzai said.
“We have preserved our land with our blood and we will do so again and again.”
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But Mohmmand said the attack showed the Afghan government was not even in control of the capital.
“When people say the writ of the Afghan government should be extended beyond Kabul, they are right because the Afghan government doesn’t have a writ in Kabul itself,” he said.
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The ambassador said the mob was well organised, bringing a truck full of stones with which to attack the embassy while Afghan guards supposed to protect the mission actually helped the attackers.
He said the mob smashed the embassy gate and ransacked the mission, which is in the upmarket Wazir Akbar Khan district of north Kabul.
“There were about 500 people, mostly youngsters armed with sticks, some with firearms,” he said.
Embassy staff hid in the basement “otherwise they would certainly have been attacked,” he said.
The windows of eight embassy cars were smashed while televisions, computers and windows were also smashed, including those in the ambassador’s upstairs office.
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Embassy staff also showed a Pakistani flag, which they said had been set on fire by protesters.
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The attackers also used sledgehammers to smash down part of the embassy compound wall.
Afghanistan had sent a high-level delegation to investigate reported incursions by Pakistani forces into eastern Nangarhar province. The delegation is expected to return shortly and report to the government.
Islamabad has repeatedly denied allegations that its forces had crossed into Afghan territory.
The foreign ministry statement said the Afghan Charge d’Affair was also told about a pattern of “unjustified official criticism of Pakistan”.
The Pakistan army secured Mohmand tribal area to seal the border because the region had become a refuge for terrorists, it said.