| August 30, 2012 - President Hamid Karzai was deeply saddened when he learned that five Australian soldiers were killed and injured in the province of Uruzgan.
As per the information by the Governor’s Office, an individual wearing Afghan army uniform opened fire and shot three Australian soldiers dead and two others injured in a military unit in Surkh Rez district of Uruzgan province.
President Karzai, currently on an official trip to Iran to attend the 16th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement, strongly condemned the shooting and stressed that “such actions are carried out by those who do not want to see Afghanistan have a strong and trained Force.”
The President described the acts to target foreign forces “a malicious design by elements intent upon engendering distrust between Afghan forces and their international partners.”
It is noted that over the past three decades to today, there are foreign circles that have continually tried to impede Afghanistan from getting back on its own feet and from having a strong army. |
