War Diary
Afghanistan does not want a proxy war between Pakistan and India or anybody else fought on its soil, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Thursday during a visit to Pakistan.
Karzai said he did not want any country using Afghanistan against another. His visit comes after Pakistan has intensified efforts to fight militancy in border areas, winning US praise.
India has developed close relations with Karzai's government while ties between Afghanistan and Pakistan have been tense over recent years.
The US House of Representatives soundly rejected an effort by anti-war lawmakers Wednesday to force withdrawal of all US troops from Afghanistan by the end of the year.
The outcome of the vote, 356-65 against the resolution, never was in doubt, but the debate gave those who oppose President Barack Obama's war policies a platform to vent their frustrations.
An engineer of a road construction company was killed and three other employees of the firm sustained injuries as militants attacked them in Afghanistan' s eastern Khost province Thursday, an Afghan army spokesman said. He said a group of armed Taliban militants stormed a construction site, killing an African engineer and wounding three Afghan workers.
Associated Press - Xinhua
(China Daily 03/12/2010 page11)
