Saturday, September 29, 2012
Kabul (BNA) President Hamid Karzai in his address to the 67th General Assembly of the United Nations has pointed out the profane film produced by extremists had hurt the feeling of more than 1.5 billion Muslims in the world and strongly condemned it. The president in his speech noted that insulting films or cartoons cannot be justified as freedom of press, saying such behavior can threat the co-existence among the cultures and civilizations, calling on western politicians and media outlets to fight against such evils.
Counting Afghanistan’s achievements over the past years, the president said that Afghanistan has achieved a lot.
However, the prime expectation of Afghans which peaceful life has not been achieved completely, saying Afghans is still become the victims of war on terror and suffer.
President Karzai pointed out the sanctuaries of terrorists are outside Afghanistan and not in Afghan villages, saying the war on terror must be taken on the centers of terrorist, otherwise, it would be useless.
In efforts to facilitate direct talks with the armed oppositions, the president called on the United Nations to delete the names of Taliban leaders from the black list.
On relations with Pakistan, president Karzai said Afghanistan is committed to having brotherly relations with Pakistan. However, noted that artillery shelling from Pakistan on Afghanistan villages would damage trust between the two nations.
