KABUL – Afghan President Hamid Karzai urged a visiting United States (US) delegation on Tuesday to scale back night raids and military operations causing civilian casualties. The call came as he met John Boehner, US House Speaker, who is leading a six-member delegation from the House of Representatives that also visited Pakistan this week.
“The Afghanistan president said the people of Afghanistan highly appreciate the assistance given by the US in past 10 years but they want the US military to seriously reconsider arbitrary and night search operations and those operations that cause civilian casualties,” a statement from Karzai’s office said.
