RAWALPINDI: Deputy Commander of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) Lieutenant General Nick Carter met today with Chief of the General Staff Pakistan Army General Waheed Arshad in the latest of a series of engagements aimed to bolster the military-to-military relationship between and ISAF and Pakistan, as well as collaboration to bring peace and security to the Afghan-Pakistan region, according to a press release from the Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR).
Carter and Arshad discussed their mutually shared goals to promote stability in the region, including pressuring militant groups and strengthening cross border cooperation along the Pak-Afghan Border.
"ISAF and Pakistan are committed to peace and security on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, so these discussions are very important," Carter said. "We are committed to achieving enduring solutions to security issues."
Gen Allen to stay on despite investigation
The US commander of ISAF and American forces in Afghanistan, General John Allen, will keep his command even as he is investigated for “inappropriate” emails to a woman linked to the sex scandal involving former CIA director David Petraeus, a defense official said Tuesday.
The Pentagon official told reporters the FBI had uncovered a trove of 30,000 pages of correspondence between Allen and Jill Kelley, a key figure in the scandal that brought down the storied former general and CIA chief David Petraeus.
On Tuesday, the White House came out in support of Gen Allen, confirming that he will retain his command.
Pakistan shares dossiers on Fazlullah
Pakistan Foreign Office spokesperson Moazzam Ali Khan told reporters in a briefing last week that the Pakistani authorities had shared dossiers on Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan commander Mullah Fazlullah with both the Afghan government and ISAF. He added that Pakistan had requested both the Afghan government and ISAF to take action against Fazlullah.
Mullah Fazlullah is regarded as the mastermind behind the attack on Malala Yousufzai.
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Just if there could have been a trust worthy and capable government in Afghanistan, half of the problems could have been solved between Pakistan & Afghanistan as being brothers in Islam. Current government is worse than even the Taliban government, in respect of trust relations.
@usman786. NATO/USA/Afghanistan have been complaining for 12 years about Pakistani based terrorist traveling into Afghanistan and Pakistan has ignored their complaints. Pakistan militants using Afghan soil as a hide out is a recent phenomenon and it's largely a red herring used to distract from the prime issue. As far as your comments about NATO not being able to stop the infiltration - that's true - in part because when they patrol the border area they tend to draw fire from Pakistani based soldiers and if they return fire you call them murderers.
@Joe: The problem is twofold. Firstly, the border needs to be recognised as an international border by the Afghan side. Without this you can't the create a DMZ and you can't control the border because one side doesn't demarcate a border. This issue is the main problem for both Afhanistan and Pakistan. Secondly, Pakistan needs to do away with the concept of Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). FATA needs to be part of KP province or become a separate province (whatever the people of the area decide) like any other province with the law of the land as the cornerstone and not tribal councils, Maliks or Political agents. Pakistan and Afghanistan are not at war nor have they ever declared war on each other so a DMZ is not really directly relevant. However, a DMZ would save both countries immense resources that could be channeled into more productive use and allow the people to travel freely between the two countries.
LOLL funny man Usman786: two faced hypocrite. "Pakis has asked afghans to stop infiltration of militants if any" how about the ISI continuous involvement with Taliban and killing of Dr.Najib? Also the Pashtun(Afghan) lands over contracted?
we should fence the border and put either quick sand or anti person mines and anti vehicle mines just like India did on LOC and see, who is not cooperative Pakistan or NATO.
its the only way NATO and ISAF have drone technology to watch over
@Joe: Pak has asked afghans to stop infiltration of militants if any. With NATo forces you shd be able to stop that. We have debt doubled just due to WOT and unless that is waived or recovered from corrupt hands, donot ask for more or even bother to come here
The only way to stop cross-border infiltration between a border like the Afghan-Pakistan one is to create a miles-wide DMZ similar to the one between North and South Korea.
Anyone who enters the DMZ could easily be seen, responded to, by patrolling aircraft or ground forces from a nation on either side.