Pakistan ‘sending militants into Afghanistan’

PAKISTAN’S government is equipping and sending militants into Afghanistan, a state-run Afghan paper said yesterday.

The United States and its Afghan allies say the Taliban has been able to regroup since its 2001 ouster using safe havens in Pakistan and drugs money.

“For a long time, our country has been exposed to invasions and threats,” Anis, the leading government-controlled paper, said in an editorial. “The country’s current crisis of military challenge is the result of direct and indirect interference of Pakistan.”