Pakistan, Afghanistan border rift resurfaces
AFGHANISTAN: Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari urged the United
States and NATO Friday to help stop shipment of arms and ammunition from
Afghanistan into Pakistan.
He made the demand in his separate meetings with U.S. Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton and the NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh
Rasmussen, in New York. The demand came the same day when Pakistani
media reported that security forces foiled an attempt to smuggle arms
from Afghanistan into Bajaur tribal region of Pakistan.
Both Afghanistan and Pakistan have, for quite some time, been trading
charges regarding infiltration of militants and shipment of arms and
ammunition into each other's territories. Pakistan though has never
directly accused the Afghan government of fomenting trouble on its
border, yet it claims that insurgents functioning in its volatile
northwestern areas are receiving arms supplies and manpower from their
counterparts in Afghanistan.
Kabul, Sunday, Xinhua
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