Karzai, in Kabul at a joint press conference with the visiting NATO chief Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, said Afghanistan should not be blamed for the booming narcotics trade, although his government deemed it a menace to the future of Afghanistan.
"As I had said two years ago, Afghanistan never takes the blame (for the drugs threat). The Afghan nation due to desperation, war... has been forced to (resort to) this issue," Karzai replied when asked to comment about Schweich's comments.
He said his government had put behind bars hundreds of drugs traffickers and pressed for a substantive solution of the drugs threat.
"Without doubt, some Afghans are drugs smugglers, but majority of them are the international mafia who do not live in Afghanistan," he said.
Schweich also criticized the Pentagon for refusing U.S. military support for drug eradication efforts and arguing that it was someone else's job to clean up the drug business after the war is over.
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