US may withdraw, financial aid should continue; Karzai
Tuesday, April 17th, 2012 6:55:55 by Fayyaz Yaseen
US may withdraw, financial aid should continue; Karzai
Kabul: (Tuesday, April 17, 2012) Afghan President Hamid Karzai said today that after withdrawal of its forces in 2014, the USA should pay at least $ 2 billion a year for Afghanistan’s security expenditure.
The Afghan president was of the view that the US should specify in a partnership agreement to be signed between the two countries for how much money will it provide to Afghanistan after its forces would leave the country.
Addressing the professors and students in Kabul, he said, “They (US) say we will give you money, but will not specify the amount. We say give us less, but write it down.”
“We want them to write down that America will give for Afghanistan’s security $ 2 billion a year – or at least two billion a year if they want to give us more, they are welcome.”
Karzai’s demand for sustained monetary aid has come forward after a day he laid the blame for an 18-hour assault by squads of Taliban insurgents in Kabul on intelligence failure of the NATO forces.
Slamming the allied forces’ ability to contain Taliban from attacking at will, the Afghan president had said, “The terrorists’ infiltration in Kabul and other provinces is an intelligence failure for us and especially for NATO
and should be seriously investigated.”
According to the news emanating from the country, the 130,000-strong contingent of the NATO forces is to end ten-year long war and to return by the end of 2014. In the backdrop of this scenario, the US and the Afghan government
is in negotiations about their future relations.
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on Apr 17 2012. Filed under Latest News, Pakistan, USA, World.
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