Afghanistan has called on the West to review policy toward its "war on terror ally" Pakistan in the wake of disclosures by online whistle-blower Wikileaks that pointed to Pakistani double-dealings in the Afghan war.
Reacting to the leaks, Afghanistan's National Security Council (NSC) said Washington had failed to take to task the patrons and supporters of the Taliban hiding in Pakistan throughout the decade-long conflict.
"With regret ... our allies did not show necessary attention about the external support for the international terrorists ... for the regional stability and global security," the NSC said in a statement on Tuesday.
The Afghan government of President Hamid Karzai has frequently accused Pakistan's intelligence agency, the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), of supporting Taliban insurgents to mastermind attacks against Afghan and U.S.-led targets to destabilize the country.
Kabul said information contained in documents released on WikiLeaks' website on Sunday backed its long-held position that the spy agency continued to maintain links with the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan.
The NSC, without naming Pakistan, said use of terrorism as an instrument of state policy was a dangerous gamble and had to be stopped.
"Having a contradictory and vague policy against the forces who use terrorism as a tool for interference and sabotage against others, have had devastating results," it said.
Islamabad denies the Afghan claim saying it is a victim of militancy itself.
At a press conference later Tuesday, Karzai's national security adviser Rangeen Dadfar Spanta took the issue of U.S. aid to Pakistan under the 2009 Kerry-Lugar aid bill that promised Islamabad $7.5 billion in civilian assistance over the next five years.
"It's not justifiable for Afghans to see a country given 11 billion dollars in reconstruction aid and to support its security forces, and then see those same forces training terrorists," said Spanta, who served for years as Foreign Minister in Karzai's government until last year.
Those supporting militants should be punished rather than be treated as an ally, he added.
Pointing out that Afghan politicians are not able to explain this (US aid and Pakistan's duplicity) to the Afghan people, Spanta, called on US and NATO troops to take on the insurgents before they infiltrated Afghanistan from their sanctuaries in Pakistan.
The Afghan reaction came even as President Barack Obama said leaked classified documents on the Afghan war did not contain any issue that was not already part of debate.
Speaking for the first time after Wikileaks released more than 92,000 classified documents relating to the Afghan war, Obama said he was concerned about the disclosure of sensitive information from the battlefield that could potentially jeopardize individuals or operations.
"The fact is, these documents don't reveal any issues that haven't already informed our public debate on Afghanistan. Indeed, they point to the same challenges that led me to conduct an extensive review of our policy last fall," Obama said.
His comments came as he sought Congressional support for his Afghanistan-Pakistan policy that has come under increased scrutiny after the Wikileaks.
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