UN envoy criticises German army's role in Afghanistan

BERLIN (AFP) - The senior UN envoy to Afghanistan, Tom Koenigs, criticised the restricted role of the German army in the strife-torn country in an interview published on Wednesday. --- "I think the German army stationed there should support the police in the fight against drugs and drug laboratories and not say: 'That has got nothing to do with us'," Koenigs, a German, told the Berliner Zeitung newspaper.