KABUL (PAN): President Hamid Karzai on Thursday reiterated his call for international action against terrorist sanctuaries and training centers beyond Afghanistan's borders.

His remarks come days after a website called Wikileaks released over 90,000 documents on the war. The leaked memos accused Pakistan's spy agency of aiding the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan.

His administration was still reading and analyzing the stream of US military documents, he said, warning the reports might endanger the lives of Afghans who provided the information to the website.

"It is extremely irresponsible and shocking; there are lives in danger," remarked the Afghan leader, who has directed his Cabinet ministers to look into the documents, particularly the papers on civilian casualties.

"The international community is here to fight the menace of terrorism, but there is danger elsewhere and they are not acting," he told a news briefing in Kabul.

Karzai asked the world to mount pressure on Pakistan to dismantle the terrorist hideouts instead of damaging the homes of ordinary Afghans in counterinsurgency operations.

He said Afghanistan would continue to cooperate with the global fraternity if the approach to the war on terror was altered in light of the leaked memos.

The government would expand relations with neighbouring countries so that Afghanistan could fight against the menace on its own, the president promised.

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