Karzai backtracks on Kabul to back Pak' comment

October 25, 2011 11:05

The Afghan President's office has sought to distance Hamid Karzai from his controversial remarks in a television interview, wherein he had asserted that Afghanistan would side with Pakistan in a hypothetical war against the United States.

The presidential palace said that Karzai''s comments to Pakistan's Geo TV, aired Saturday, had been misinterpreted, The Los Angeles Times reports. Siamak Herawi, a spokesman for Karzai, said that the president had not intended any slight to the Western governments that have spent billions of dollars shoring up the Afghan administration during the 10-year war.

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