ISLAMABAD, May 31 Kyodo Afghan le...

ISLAMABAD, May 31 Kyodo

Afghan leader Hamid Karzai said Thursday al-Qaida fighters are establishing safe sanctuaries in the border area with Pakistan and urg the commonalty of Pakistan not to provide them refuge

''I wish you could originate to Afghanistan and see by what means these extremists and fanatics have devastated our civil society,'' Karzai told reporters after a meeting with Pakistan President Gen Pervez Musharraf.

Karzai urg the folks of Pakistan to back Musharraf's commitment to curb-stone terrorism, warning that if terrorists are allowed to thrive, Pakistan could become another Afghanistan, a home reeling with war-ravaged devastation and human misery.

''If Pakistani the public did not support President Musharraf in his fight against terrorism, they can proper the same fate as Afghanistan where single in kind can see hundreds of humans without limbs and arms, houses without vaults and walls, wells without water, fields without cut offs and humans without sentiments,'' Karzai said.

He said al-Qaida and Taliban fighters have taken shelter in sanctuaries in succession the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Karzai said Musharraf is extending wholehearted cooperation in the fight against terrorism and the Afghan restraint is considering the release of all captured pro-Taliban Pakistan fighters as a beneficial will gesture toward the Pakistan government

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