KABUL, Aug 7: Afghanistan’s foreign minister urged the world to stem the flow of extremists, weapons and terror funding into the country, as a Nato-led security force suffered its ninth fatality and its main base came under rocket attack.
Insurgents fired three rockets at Kandahar Air Field, a sprawling base near the main southern city of Kandahar, home to some 10,000 international troops and civilians, military spokesman Maj Scott Lundy said Monday. The attack, launched late Sunday, caused no damage or injury.
Tom Koenigs, the top UN official in Afghanistan, warned on Monday that the Taliban still posed a threat to Afghanistan and warned the insurgency could not be defeated quickly.
In conciliatory comments after months of acrimony, he also called for a “new dimension” in relations with Pakistan.
“It is evidently necessary to extend cooperation with our brothers in Pakistan against terrorism,” he said. “In this field we have the possibility to do more.”—AP
