Washington, Mar. 2 : CanadianPrime Minister Stephen Harper has said that neither Canada nor other foreign armies can defeat the Taliban.
In an interview that was broadcast on Sunday, Harper said: "Frankly, we are not going to ever defeat the insurgency."
Canadian troops have been fighting and dying in Afghanistan since 2002, but this is the first time the Prime Minister has explicitly said defeating the Islamic extremists can''t be done, according to the Globe and Mail newspaper.