Karzai vows to improve ties with Pakistan

AFGHAN President Hamid Karzai called cross-border terrorism one of the greatest threats confronting his country and vowed yesterday to improve ties with Pakistan to combat the problem.

Speaking to a gathering of world leaders and top security officials, Karzai praised the new US administration’s more regional approach to fighting terrorism and welcomed President Barack Obama’s appointment of Richard Holbrooke as a special representative to Pakistan and Afghanistan.

“Security can... not come to Afghanistan, or to the region, or to the international community without better co-ordination with our neighbours,” he said. But Karzai said Afghanistan’s diplomatic ties with its neighbours are getting stronger.