KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 13 (UPI) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Tuesday urged a rethink of the way the U.S.-led war on terror was being fought.
"We and the international community and the coalition must sit down and reconsider and rethink whether the approach to the defeat of terrorism that we have taken is the right one," he told the BBC in an interview.
He added: "I believe we have to go to the sources of it, where terrorists are trained, where terrorists are prompted up."
Karzai was made president after a U.S.-led coalition toppled Afghanistan's Taliban regime following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Since then, the country has been a hotbed of militant activity with large amounts of Taliban and al-Qaida believed to be still hiding in Afghanistan and in neighboring Pakistan.
Violence this year has so far killed more than 1,000 people ahead of elections later this month.
U.S. and allied forces are providing security for the country but violence nonetheless continues. Many Afghans blame neighboring Pakistan for the violence. Islamabad was a major backer of the Taliban but switched sides after the Sept. 11 attacks.
Pakistan says it does all it can to stem the flow of insurgents across its porous border into Afghanistan and on Monday the country's president, Pervez Musharraf, offered to build a fence on the border to prevent the flow of militants.
