London, Mar. 29 : Hamid Karzai and Asif Ali Zardari may have welcomed US President Barack Obama''s new strategy on Afghanistan and Pakistan (now called AfPak in Washington), but experts have warned that both the South Asian countries will have to pay a fair price in exchange of the US aid.

According to Afghan President Karzai, the proposal for increased civil and military aid was "better than they were expecting."

Kabul - Some Afghan insurgent leaders who are not part of the al-Qaeda network should be removed from a United Nations blacklist so as to boost reconciliation efforts with the Taliban, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Saturday.

Speaking to reporters in a press conference at his presidential palace, Karzai also said that his government and the international community must seek the assistance of some Islamic countries in order to accelerate the peace process with the militants.

Kabul  - Afghan President Hamid Karzai welcomed the new strategy unveiled by US President Barack Obama on Friday and said the chances for success were greater, because the plan has recognized that the war on terrorism was a regional problem.

"The Afghan government welcomes the new US strategy, because it has taken into consideration the Afghan government's ideas and its demand that the terrorism is a regional problem," Karzai said in a statement issued by his office.

Kabul, Mar 27 : Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai has said that accounts of widespread corruption within his government are exaggerated and politically motivated.

Government figures, including relatives of Karzai, have been accused of abusing their connections for profit.

Karzai told a news conference every government employee would be required to publicly declare his or her income, the BBC reported.

The Afghan President said he earned 500 dollars a month, had savings of 10,000 dollars in a bank in Germany and had no assets.

Kabul - President Hamid Karzai said Wednesday that Afghanistan was no puppet state and warned the international community to stay away from its internal affairs as the country faces a political crisis due to a postponement of presidential polls.

"The Afghan nation is now the owner of its soil and no one can interfere in that," Karzai told reporters in a joint press conference with visiting NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer.

Kabul - The remains of former Afghan president Mohammad Daud Khan, killed in a Soviet-backed coup over three decades ago, were reburied in Kabul on Tuesday.

President Hamid Karzai, members of Afghan cabinet, MPs and family members paid their respects as Khan's remains were placed in coffin in a ceremony held in the fortified presidential compound where he and 16 members of family were killed in 1978.