Afghanistan's National Security Adviser Rangin Dadfar Spanta has called on the Pakistani government to do more against militant groups launching attacks on the occupation forces and Afghan government officials from border areas of Pakistan.

The United States officials’ “do more” chorus has set off a conflagration of extremism and terrorism in the tribal areas of Pakistan bordering Afghanistan whose flames are threatening to consume most of the country. The U.S. did stop to harp on the “do more” chorus for awhile but now top Afghan officials started the “do more” chorus.
In July 27, 2008, then U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Pakistan needs to do more to prevent Taliban militants from launching attacks into Afghanistan from its territory. “We understand that it's difficult, we understand that the northwest frontier area is difficult, but militants cannot be allowed to organize there and to plan there and to engage across the border,” Rice said. “So yes, more needs to be done.”
Rangin Dadfar Spanta told AFP on Monday that Afghanistan had “tremendous evidence” that Pakistani authorities allowed militants to operate on the country's soil and had presented it to Islamabad “many times”.
The Afghan official spoke to AFP in an interview a week after the Al-Jazeera television network said Afghan President Hamid Karzai had met the man who runs the Haqqani network in talks mediated by Pakistan.
Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Taliban have all denied any such meeting.
Spanta's comments signal an about-turn by the Afghan government after months of overtures to Islamabad in efforts to prompt Pakistan to deal with militant groups, including the Taliban based along the Afghan border.
Islamabad had failed to act against the groups based in Pakistan's tribal areas on the Afghan border, he told AFP.
“My expectation is that Pakistan after nine years -- because theoretically Pakistan is part of the anti-terror alliance -- they have to begin to take some serious measures against terrorism,” he said.
“They have to hand over the leadership of the terrorist groups, they have to give a list of the people they have arrested and are holding in the detention centers in Pakistan.”
Afghan officials have blamed a number of major attacks on Pakistani-based groups whom they say are supported by Pakistan's intelligence and military.
Pakistani officials were not reachable for comment, but the military consistently denies supporting militant groups and points to the losses of more than 2,000 Pakistani soldiers fighting homegrown Taliban since 2002.
“We have evidence that the terrorists from Pakistan are involved in daily attacks against our people and international 'jihadi' groups are active here. They have their base and sanctuaries behind our border and this is a serious problem,” Spanta said.
“We have to address the menace of terrorism.”
Spanta -- a former foreign minister and the senior cabinet-level advisor to Karzai on security issues -- said senior Pakistani military and intelligence officials had visited Kabul in recent months on goodwill visits.
“I hope we can begin a constructive dialogue with a serious agenda during the next meeting in Islamabad, or in Kabul... maybe next month,” he said.
Spanta said Pakistan had failed to act against Al-Qaeda, the Afghan Taliban leadership known as the Quetta Shura, the Haqqani network, the minor Hekmatyar group, Hizb-u-Tahrir, as well as “Uzbek and Chechen terrorist groups”.
He denied Karzai had met Sirajuddin Haqqani, who runs the Haqqani network, which often launches attacks in Afghanistan, or the Taliban, “through mediation of Pakistan forces or otherwise”.
Pakistani security officials indicated last month on condition of anonymity that they were planning to help broker peace efforts in Afghanistan by acting as a bridge between the Kabul government and powerful Haqqani network.
Photo: Afghanistan's National Security Adviser Rangin Dadfar Spanta
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