Posted AT 5:13 AM EST on 01/08/07
Too soon for Canada to pull out, Kabul says
KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN — Afghan forces are too weak to defend Kandahar and if Canada's heavily armed battle group were pulled out, efforts to rebuild the war-torn province would collapse, a senior minister in the Afghan government said yesterday.
"It's too early to talk of troop withdrawal," said Mohammed Ehsan Zia, Afghanistan's Minister of Rural Rehabilitation and Development.
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