ISLAMABAD, May 19 (Xinhua) -- Pakistan on Friday rejected allegations by Afghan President Hamid Karzai that it was training militants for violence and infiltrating them into Afghanistan.

    Karzai blamed Pakistan on Thursday after some of the fiercest fighting in Afghanistan since the former Taliban regime was toppled in a U.S.-led invasion in 2001 for sheltering al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden.

    "There is no truth in this," Pakistani foreign office spokeswoman Tasnim Aslam said.

    "Pakistan is not providing training to insurgents and it is not sending them to Afghanistan," she said.

    Aslam said Islamabad, which played a key role in financing and training the Afghan warriors who defeated the Soviet invasion in the 1980s, now has no role in Afghanistan's internal affairs.

    "If there is unrest in Afghanistan, Pakistan is not responsible," she said.

    "Peace and stability in Afghanistan is in Pakistan's interest,"she added. Enditem