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Pakistan hopes Musharraf-Karzai meeting will end mistrust
OK, I have a question here:

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan hopes that a meeting between President Pervez Musharraf and his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai in Turkey next week will help snooker the Afghans clear up misunderstandings, the foreign office said Monday.

The two key allies of the US-led war on terror have been at loggerheads for months over Kabul’s claims that Islamabad is either failing to tackle or is actively fostering a growing Taleban insurgency. ‘It is always useful to maintain dialogue,’ foreign office spokeswoman Tasnim Aslam said at a weekly briefing when asked what Pakistan’s aims were from the meeting due on April 29.

Aslam said statements from Afghanistan ‘reflect a lack of understanding about Pakistan and our policy and what we are doing to ensure that there is no cross-border movement by undesirable elements.’

Pakistan says it has 80,000 troops stationed on the frontier with Afghanistan to stop insurgents crossing and that pro-government tribesmen recently killed 300 ‘foreign militants’ in the region.

But Pakistan’s plans to fence part of the border have angered Afghanistan. On Thursday Kabul said its troops had torn down some fencing and clashed with Pakistani soldiers.
So if Afghanistan is having a problem with Islamist gunmen crossing from Pakiland, and the Paks start putting up a fence to help make them stop, isn't that in Afghanistan's best interest? Why tear it down? Think I'm missing some part of this story...
Afghanistan doesn't accept the Durrand line as the border. Neither does Pakland, except when they think it's in their interest. The Paks are building the fence in what the Afghans regard as their back yard.

Posted by: Free Radical 2007-04-23
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