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Afghanistan links violence to Pakistan’s truce with militants

UNITED NATIONS: Afghan Foreign Minister Rangin Dadfar Spanta told the UN Security Council on Wednesday that a key factor behind the worsening security in his country was “the de facto truce” in neighbouring Pakistan’s tribal areas. “One of the main factors contributing to the deterioration of the security situation in the country is the de facto truce in the tribal areas beyond the border,” he said during a council debate on violence-wracked Afghanistan. He was referring to ongoing peace talks between Pakistani authorities and Taliban warlord Baitullah Mehsud, who was blamed by the previous government for the December assassination of former premier Benazir Bhutto. “Terrorist sanctuaries and an elaborate system of financing, recruiting, arming and systematic training of suicide bombers are at work outside our borders, to keep the terrorist threat alive,” Spanta said. Warning that terrorism “could not be defeated unless its root causes were addressed”, he said success would be achieved “only by a coherent, integrated, regional and global approach”. afp

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