Afghan President Karzai: We Will Support Pakistan In A Conflict With The U.S.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai speaks during a news conference in Kabul October 20, 2011. REUTERS/Omar Sobhan

Afghanistan To Back Pakistan If Wars With U.S.: Karzai -- MSNBC

ISLAMABAD — Afghanistan would support Pakistan in case of military conflict between Pakistan and the United States, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said in an interview to a private Pakistani TV channel broadcast on Saturday.

The remarks were in sharp contrast to recent tension between the two neighbors over cross-border raids, and Afghan accusations that Pakistan was involved in killing the chief Afghan peace envoy, former Afghan president Burhanuddin Rabbani, by a suicide bomber on September 20.

"God forbid, If ever there is a war between Pakistan and America, Afghanistan will side with Pakistan," he said in the interview to Geo television.
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