General John Allen, commander of  NATO-led forces in Afghanistan, met the Pakistan and Afghanistan army chiefs on Sunday to discuss border security. Their discussion focused on measures to control border security and untoward incidents on both sides of the Pakistani-Afghan Border. Pakistani leaders are scheduled to meet next week to discuss the end of the nearly six-month blockade of NATO supply routes into Afghanistan. Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani will convene this meeting which will look at ways to mend relations with the United States in time for the Nato summit on Afghanistan in Chicago early next week.

US commander in Afghanistan, General John Allen. Photo: AFP