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Karzai Warns Pakistan He'll Send Troops Over Border

Posted Jun 15, 08 2:33 PM CDT in World 

(Newser) – Citing the right to self defense, Afghan President Hamid Karzai warned that his country may send troops across the border with Pakistan to fight militants who have killed Afghans, BBC reports. "When they cross the territory from Pakistan to come and kill Afghans and to kill coalition troops it exactly gives us the right to go back and do the same."

Pakistan's PM Yusuf Raza Gillani responded by saying that the border between the countries is too long to effectively police, and that Pakistan will not "allow anyone to interfere in our territorial limits and our affairs." Karzai maintains that his country has the right to seek out Taliban leaders who target Afghans, no matter where the terrorists are hiding.

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Afghan President Hamid Karzai has issued a forceful warning to militants in Pakistan, saying he will send Afghan troops across the border to combat Taliban insurgents.   (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
Afghan President Hamid Karzai gestures during a press conference at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, June 15, 2008.   (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
Afghan returnees are given information about the mined areas during a mine awareness program after arriving from Pakistan at The UN Refugee center in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, June 2, 2008.   (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
Pakistani army troops keep guard at a post in Spinkai, a village in Pakistan's South Waziristan. Since militants crossed into Afghanistan, that country claims the right to retaliate in self defense.   (AP Photo/Stephen Graham)
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