US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Afghanistan on Wednesday
evening in an unannounced visit to meet with President Hamid Karzai and other
civil society leaders, an embassy spokesman said.
"US Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton has arrived this evening in the capital for a short visit," said
Gavin Sundwall, the spokesman for American Embassy in Kabul.
"The purpose
of her visit is to meet with President Karzai and the leaders of civil society,"
Sundwall said.
Clinton will meet with Karzai Thursday morning at his
palace.
Another official with the US Embassy said Clinton's visit is to
show the American long-term commitment for Afghanistan.
She will also
make efforts to push for a political resolution, the official said, asking not
to be named.
Lately, Clinton has been pushing for a political solution to
the decade-old insurgency in Afghanistan and her visit comes amid increasing
complex attacks in the capital in recent months, including the assassination of
former Afghan president and the head of a council that was seeking peace talks
with the Taliban in a suicide attack on his house last month.
Earlier in
September, the US Embassy in Kabul was attacked by the Taliban insurgents which
went on for 20 hours.
Nearly 140,000 foreign forces - of which two-thirds
are Americans - are fighting a bloody insurgency. US and NATO officials have
announced they will leave all combat operations by 2014.
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