Troop strategy

President Hamid Karzai pressed America’s top military leader yesterday on the US strategy in Afghanistan as it prepares to pour up to 30,000 more forces into the country.

Karzai asked Adm Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, what kinds of operations the newly deployed troops would carry out and said the Afghan government should be consulted about those operations.

Karzai’s office said Mullen told the president the new troops would be sent to dangerous regions with little security, particularly along the Pakistan border.