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Kabul and Islamabad in war of words

A Taliban attack on the Afghan defence minister's house in Kabul left an Afghan official blames Pakistan for helping the Taliban, given the number of men fighting for the Taliban who seemed to have crossed the border from his country.

But the Pakistani government says Kabul is making the country a scapegoat

Raoof Hasan, special assistant on information and broadcasting to the Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan told Newshour's Paul Henley he did not understand the Afghan government's fury at Pakistan,

(Picture shows Pakistani troops patrol along Pakistan-Afghanistan border fence, Credit: Aamir Qureshi for AFP)

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