UNITED NATIONS, Sept 20: President Pervez Musharraf urged Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Wednesday to ‘do more’ in Afghanistan instead of blaming Pakistan for his troubles.

“We have already done a lot in Pakistan. They need to do more in Afghanistan,” said Gen Musharraf while responding to the Afghan president’s allegation that Pakistan was stirring troubles in his country.

In his address to the 61st UN General Assembly earlier on Wednesday, Mr Karzai blamed Pakistan for allowing terrorists to cross into his country for “committing horrific acts of violence to try to derail Afghanistan from its path to success.”

He also urged the international community to “look beyond Afghanistan to the sources of terrorism” and sought its help to “destroy terrorist sanctuaries beyond Afghanistan.”

Responding to these remarks at a news conference at the UN Press Centre, President Musharraf said that “for the last 27 years, Pakistan has borne the brunt of what has been happening in Afghanistan.”

“What President Karzai has said is not the correct thing,” he said, advising Mr Karzai to create ‘an environment’ within his country that would allow him to tackle the problem of terrorism.

He recalled that from 1997 till their removal in late 2001, the Taliban controlled 90 per cent of the Afghan territory. “Who were they who ran the country under the Taliban? They had not come from Pakistan. Certainly, (they were) the people of Afghanistan. Who was Mullah Omar? An Afghan from Kandahar,” he said.

He said that since 1995, when the Taliban movement appeared on the scene, Mullah Omar had not visited Pakistan even once and lived “with his own people in Kandahar, which is the southern province of Afghanistan.”

President Musharraf, however, acknowledged that there were people in Pakistan who supported the Taliban and “some also crossed the border” into Afghanistan.

He said Pakistan had devised ‘a multi-pronged’ strategy, featuring a combination of military, political and administration measures, to deal with such people.