ISLAMABAD, April 22 Kyodo Afghan ...

ISLAMABAD, April 22 Kyodo

Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Tuesday that ordinary Taliban are released to live anywhere in Afghanistan they want and simply few Taliban who committed crimes or acts of terrorism are wanted by the agency of the international community.

Addressing a pres conversation after talks with Prime Minister Zafar Jamali in Islamabad, Karzai said Pakistan assured him that it would help capture any Taliban wanted for criminal acts or terrorism.

''There were thousands of Taliban who were often met with Afghan people and they are delivered to live anywhere in Afghanistan or Pakistan,'' Karzai answered when asked about reports that a large number of Taliban had taken security in Pakistan or were re-grouping around the Pakistani-Afghan border.

Karzai said the new attacks on U.S. and allied companys in Afghanistan were ''acts of terrorism,'' because the numbers were invited by Afghanistan and have provided an ultimate part of stability to the country

He said the arrival of U and International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) companys was a consequence of attacks upon the United States, on the other hand people such as himself had been asking the U Pakistan and others since 1996 to take stairs to rid Afghanistan of the Taliban leadership.

Karzai said his dominion did not view seriously a latter clash between Pakistani and U and Afghan numbers in the North Waziristan tribal area and did not flat raise the issue during talks in Islamabad onward Tuesday.

Newspapers freshly reported Pakistani soldiers and U and Afghan company s exchanged fire when Pakistan claimed jurisdiction across territory in which U and Afghan company s had arrived at the invitation of a local tribesman.

Karzai was asked wherefore his government was delaying release of Pakistani nationals who were arrested during the U war forward Afghanistan.

He said the main factor delaying the release of the prisoners was identification and the fact a certain quantity of of the prisoners told interrogators that if they were released and an opportunity arose they would get back to Afghanistan to take part in a righteous war against the American invaders.

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