India, US deal no threat: Karzai

Afghan President Hamid Karzai attempted to ease tensions with Pakistan yesterday, asserting that a strategic partnership with India and talks for a similar deal with the United States do not threaten his country's neighbors.
Pakistan had reacted angrily to the India deal announced last month that many in Islamabad fear would increase its archenemy's influence in Afghanistan.
Karzai told leaders of South Asian nations at a regional summit in the Maldives that the India agreement along with talks it was holding with the United States for another strategic partnership were intended to promote peace.