KABUL, June 23: President Hamid Karzai angrily criticised on Saturday ‘indiscriminate and imprecise’ operations by Nato and US-led forces in Afghanistan, which, he said, had killed 90 civilians in just over a week.
Meanwhile, around 100 rebels were killed in the past 24 hours, the security forces reported.
About 60 were killed in a strike overnight in Paktika, ISAF officials said.
The coalition reported that its soldiers had killed nearly 20 ‘enemy fighters’ in Kandahar. The others were killed in clashes in Ghazni and Zabul province.
A coalition soldier was also killed, the force said.
The president told reporters that one recent operation had killed 52 people in three days of fighting in Uruzgan.
“Attacks causing civilian casualties, as I have said before, are not acceptable for us. It is no longer tolerated,” he said.—AFP
