how can we let this go on?

Karzai hasn't named Pakistan, but has been clearly inferring for months that his neighbor to the south and east has been soft on the ethnically Pashtun, Islamic fundamentalist Taliban, which has roots in both countries.

On Tuesday, Afghanistan's elected leader said: "We know our problems. We have difficulties. But Afghanistan also knows where the problem is, in extremism, in madrassas preaching hatred, places by the name of madrassas preaching hatred."

Musharraf lashes out at Karzai on terror issue

Updated Tue. Sep. 26 2006 11:27 PM ET

CTV.ca News Staff

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WASHINGTON: Afghanistan's elected president Hamid Karzai obliquely blamed Pakistan for continued terror attacks in his troubled nation, pointing to hate-spewing madrassas in his neighbour country as the primary source of trouble.

At a White House news conference on Tuesday, with President Bush by his side, Karzai was restrained in his criticism of Pakistan but there was no mistaking his skepticism about the commitment of "my brother Musharraf" in the war on terrorism.

The Afghan president, who has been exchanging harsh words through the media with the Pakistani dictator while both are in the US, said he would "wait and see” how Pakistan's truce with tribals in Waziristan would work.

"The most important element of the agreement for us is that no terrorists should be allowed to cross into Afghanistan," Karzai said, suggesting clearly that Pakistan is the sanctuary for terrorists. "We will back any move that will deny terror sanctuaries in Waziristan or the troubled territories of Pakistan."

Karzai has been carrying his complaints against Musharraf and Pakistan to Bush, who is trying to broker peace between the neighbours.

Two of the four questions at the White House presser related to Afghansitan's tensions with Pakistan, leading Bush to joke that he would be observing the body language of Karzai and Musharraf when he hosts them for Iftar dinner on Wednesday.

Pakistan has been mocking Karzai, saying he is barely in control of Kabul. On Monday, Musharraf aggravated matters by advising Karzai to get his know his own country better.

Karzai has been no less testy this past week in his public comments, saying what Pakistan is doing in Afghanistan is akin to training snakes and the snakes would one day come back to bite Pakistan.

At Tuesday’s news conference, Karzai once again seemed to blame Pakistan-patronized Taliban for his country’s travails, speaking about how they had closed schools and destroyed the education system of the country, setting Afghanistan back by decades.