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US Envoy Meets Afghan President
Date: 2/14/2009 8:26:35 AM Sender: VOA News
US Envoy Meets Afghan President  
By VOA News
14 February 2009
  
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Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai and US special envoy Richard Holbrooke at Presidential Palace in Kabul, 14 Feb 2009

The new U.S. envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan has held talks with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, amid a downturn in U.S.-Afghan relations.

Richard Holbrooke met with Mr. Karzai Saturday in Kabul for talks expected to focus on fighting the growing Taliban insurgency.  They made no public statements afterward.

But Mr. Karzai told the Arabic television network Al-Jazeera on Friday there is tension between the U.S. and Afghan governments related to civilian casualties, the arrests of Afghans, and nightly raids on homes and the casualties they cause.

Mr. Karzai and the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama have had limited communication since Mr. Obama took office on January 20.

Earlier Saturday, Holbrooke met with Afghan Foreign Minister Rangin Dadfar Spanta.

In violence Saturday, Afghan police say two separate bombings have killed a local official and four police officers.

Police in eastern Khost province say a roadside bomb killed the district chief, Baitul Zaman Sabari, in Nadir Shah Kot.

In southern Afghanistan, police say another roadside bomb hit a police vehicle in Kandahar province late Friday, killing four policemen.

This is Richard Holbrooke＇s first trip to the region since President Obama named him special representative to Pakistan and Afghanistan.  On Wednesday, Taliban militants launched deadly attacks on three government ministries in the Afghan capital.

Mr. Obama is pledging to re-evaluate U.S. counterterrorism strategy in the region.  He is expected to announce how many additional troops he will send to Afghanistan in the coming days.

Holbrooke previously visited Pakistan on his trip to the region.  He is expected to also stop in India.

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