UNITED NATIONS: Afghanistan’s chief executive Abdullah Abdullah has called for Pakistan to keep its promise to crackdown on Islamic extremists blamed for carrying out cross-border attacks and destablilzing the impoverished war-torn country.
Abdullah Abdullah was addressing to the United Nations General Assembly hours after a fast-moving assault by the Taliban captured the strategic northern Afghan city of Kunduz in a multi-pronged attack involving hundreds of fighters, the first time the insurgents have seized a major urban area since the 2001 US-led invasion.
Abdullah said some of the attackers had come from abroad, and said, “We call on Pakistan to do what its leadership promised to us a few months ago when they agreed to crack down on known terror outfits.”
Abdullah also cited the Islamic State as among the extremist groups sowing terror in Afghanistan, and said without external support “this guerrilla-style low intensity warfare would have been history by now.”
The Afghan leader expressed optimism that the insurgency would be defeated, saying “these attempts will eventually fail to subdue us.”
