Hamid Karzai has said that the Pakistani government wants to promote “anarchy and weakness” in Afghanistan.
Speaking to Sky’s Yalda Hakim, the former Afghan president condemned Islamabad’s bombing of his country.
Fighting began in late February Pakistan started targeting Afghanistan With air strikes they claim targeted militant strongholds.
The conflict, which the United Nations estimates has displaced more than 100,000 people, intensified this week when a missile hit a hospital treating drug addicts in Kabul, killing 400 people.
Mr Karzai – who led Afghanistan between 2002 and 2014 after being ousted from power by the Taliban – said he heard the “terrible sound” of the bombing, his house shook and the surrounding area filled with smoke and dust.
He said the strike was the “most unfortunate incident” in the history of relations between the two countries.
“The Pakistani government could not live with any Afghan government,” he told Sky News.
“They didn’t do it well in Afghanistan with the government and the monarchy and then the republic and then, other governments and then the republic again. During my tenure, I went there 20 times to try to find better relations.”
He said that the current government of Pakistan is repeating the same attempt to weaken Kabul.
Mr Karzai said: “Unfortunately, the government of Pakistan does not want to have a sensible, reasonable, civilized relationship with Afghanistan.
“They have relied all these years on creating anarchy and weakness and a degraded Afghanistan, which in their interest, is a terrible mistake. I hope they will change their minds and seek a more stable and civilized relationship with Afghanistan.”
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Mr Karzai said he had advised Pakistan’s leadership to deal with Afghanistan in a “civilised manner”.
“Please stop using methods that have not worked in the past for decades and may not work in the future,” he said.
Pakistan said “military installations and terrorist support infrastructure, including the Taliban’s technical equipment stockpile and ammunition storage” in Kabul and Nangarhar were precisely targeted.
It said the “false and misleading” claims that these facilities were being used against innocent Pakistani citizens and that the site had been hit were intended to inflame sentiment and cover “illegal support for cross-border terrorism”.
