Karzai backs U.S. on Pakistan

Islamabad - Afghan President Hamid Karzai backed a proposed U.S. strategy on Thursday to hit al Qaeda and Taliban militants in neighbouring Pakistan, but NATO said it would not join any cross-border U.S. raids.

(Snip) ''Change of strategy is essential,'' Karzai said. ''It means that we go to those areas which are the training bases and havens of (terrorists) and we jointly go there and remove and destroy them.''

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