Afghan Foreign Minister Accuses Pakistan Of Terror

Afghanistan's Foreign Minister, Rangeen Dadfar Spanta, accused Pakistan today of using terror as its foreign policy.

Speaking to parliament in Kabul, Spanta also said: "I wish that the international community wouldn't give rewards to countries that are supporting the Taliban."

Afghan officials frequently accuse Pakistani elements of harboring Taliban militants.

Pakistan says it does all it can to fight terrorism. Pakistani intelligence officials say one of the Taliban's top leaders, Mullah Obaidullah Akhund, was arrested in Quetta on March 26, the highest-ranking Afghan militant to be captured since the fall of the hardline regime in 2001.

The reported arrest - yet to be formally announced by Pakistan's government - came on the same day U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney made a visit to Islamabad to express concern over Al-Qaeda regrouping along the Afghan-Pakistan border.

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