Kabul:
The Afghan government said on Tuesday that leaked Pentagon documents on the war in Afghanistan showed the country's Western allies had an incoherent approach to the insurgency, now in its ninth year.
Thousands of files and field reports, released on whistleblowing website WikiLeaks on Sunday, also backed Kabul's long-held position that Pakistan provides safe havens for militant groups which attack Afghan targets.
"Afghanistan has always emphasised that terrorism should be fought in its place of origin," the National Security Council (NSC) said in a statement.
"Having a contradictory and unclear policy towards those forces which have used terrorism as a tool of interference and destruction against others has had disastrous consequences," the statement said, referring to Pakistan.
Kabul has consistently accused Pakistan's intelligence agency of supporting Taliban insurgents - including masterminding attacks against Afghan and US-led targets in the country. Islamabad denies the claims.
"In the past nine years thousands of Afghan citizens and citizens of our allied countries have been killed," the NSC said, calling on its international supporters to formulate a united policy to deal with militancy.
"What's important now from our point of view is to learn from the bitter truths that we all now know about.
"Learning from the past requires adopting a strong and decisive policy (and) we must end our unclear strategies. This is the only way to mobilize the Afghan people to fight terrorism," it said.
Some 92,000 documents dating from 2004 to 2009 were released to The New York Times, Britain's Guardian newspaper and Germany's Der Spiegel news weekly by WikiLeaks.
The most controversial allegations center around claims that Pakistan, a key US ally, allows its spies to meet the Taliban directly.
According to the New York Times, Pakistani agents and Taliban representatives meet regularly "in secret strategy sessions to organise networks of militant groups that fight against American soldiers in Afghanistan, and even hatch plots to assassinate Afghan leaders".
The files also indicate that the deaths of civilians have been covered up, and that Iran is funding Taliban militants eight years after the 2001 US-led invasion ousted the radical Islamist regime from power.
Thousands of files and field reports, released on whistleblowing website WikiLeaks on Sunday, also backed Kabul's long-held position that Pakistan provides safe havens for militant groups which attack Afghan targets.
"Afghanistan has always emphasised that terrorism should be fought in its place of origin," the National Security Council (NSC) said in a statement.
"Having a contradictory and unclear policy towards those forces which have used terrorism as a tool of interference and destruction against others has had disastrous consequences," the statement said, referring to Pakistan.
Kabul has consistently accused Pakistan's intelligence agency of supporting Taliban insurgents - including masterminding attacks against Afghan and US-led targets in the country. Islamabad denies the claims.
"In the past nine years thousands of Afghan citizens and citizens of our allied countries have been killed," the NSC said, calling on its international supporters to formulate a united policy to deal with militancy.
"What's important now from our point of view is to learn from the bitter truths that we all now know about.
"Learning from the past requires adopting a strong and decisive policy (and) we must end our unclear strategies. This is the only way to mobilize the Afghan people to fight terrorism," it said.
Some 92,000 documents dating from 2004 to 2009 were released to The New York Times, Britain's Guardian newspaper and Germany's Der Spiegel news weekly by WikiLeaks.
The most controversial allegations center around claims that Pakistan, a key US ally, allows its spies to meet the Taliban directly.
According to the New York Times, Pakistani agents and Taliban representatives meet regularly "in secret strategy sessions to organise networks of militant groups that fight against American soldiers in Afghanistan, and even hatch plots to assassinate Afghan leaders".
The files also indicate that the deaths of civilians have been covered up, and that Iran is funding Taliban militants eight years after the 2001 US-led invasion ousted the radical Islamist regime from power.
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