Commanders discuss border control issues
14 May 2012 4:18 AM GMT
Top military commanders of Afghanistan, Pakistan and NATO on Sunday discussed border control measures and mechanisms to avert ‘untoward incidents’ along the Afghan frontier as the three sides resumed high-level military contacts after a break of several months.
A Pakistan Army contingent led by Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani and delegations headed by International Security Assistance Force commander US Gen John Allen and Afghan National Army chief Gen Sher Muhammad Karimi participated in the meeting of the Tripartite Commission in the garrison city of Rawalpindi.
The Tripartite Commission provides a ‘forum to raise and process contentious issues and facilitate settlement’, the Pakistan Army said in a statement.
The talks ‘focussed on border control measures and mechanisms put in place to avoid untoward incidents on both sides of the Pakistan-Afghanistan border’, it said. The talks assume significance as they were held two days before a scheduled meeting of Pakistan’s Defence Committee of the Cabinet.
A Pakistan Army contingent led by Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani and delegations headed by International Security Assistance Force commander US Gen John Allen and Afghan National Army chief Gen Sher Muhammad Karimi participated in the meeting of the Tripartite Commission in the garrison city of Rawalpindi.
The Tripartite Commission provides a ‘forum to raise and process contentious issues and facilitate settlement’, the Pakistan Army said in a statement.
The talks ‘focussed on border control measures and mechanisms put in place to avoid untoward incidents on both sides of the Pakistan-Afghanistan border’, it said. The talks assume significance as they were held two days before a scheduled meeting of Pakistan’s Defence Committee of the Cabinet.
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