Kayani raises Afghan intrusions issue with Allen

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Kayani raises Afghan intrusions issue with Allen

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ISAF Commander General John Allen called on COAS General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani at GHQ Rawalpindi.

27 June,2012 05:10 pm

According to Dunya News the two commanders discussed in detail the issues related to Pak-Afghan border situation.General Kayani expressed serious concerns regarding the violent intrusions from Afghanistan side into Pakistan territory.Security sources said COAS General Kayani also raised issue of attack on Pakistani post in Dir area in which seven Pakistani soldiers were beheaded by the militants who entered into Pak territory from Afghanistan.ISAF Commander General John Allen insisted on action against the Haqqani group. He alleged that Moulvi Fazlullah was involved in terrorist activities in Afghanistan and was operating from Pakistan’s tribal areas.The two commanders also discussed the option of military operation in North Waziristan against the so-called terror training camps. General John Allen, who commands 130,000 NATO troops fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan, flew into Chaklala air base and went straight into the talks with General Ashraf Kayani at his Rawalpindi headquarters, before jetting out of the country, officials said.There was no immediate comment from NATOs International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), but a Pakistani official said Kayani demanded greater efforts from the Americans on stopping cross-border incursions.It was a routine meeting to discuss the border coordination, a senior Pakistani military official told.We also raised the issue of cross-border attacks on the Pakistan military from Afghanistan. We demanded that ISAF take action against the militant sanctuaries in Afghanistan and eliminate the militant groups involved in cross-border attacks inside Pakistan, he added.Pakistan said around 100 Afghan-based militants crossed the border into the northwestern district of Upper Dir on Sunday. Six soldiers were killed and 11 went missing. Pakistani officials said Tuesday that seven of them were beheaded.On Wednesday, a senior security official in the northwest admitted that all 17 had in fact been beheaded after the Pakistani Taliban released a video showing the slaughtered heads.Pakistans main umbrella Taliban faction claimed responsibility for the attack.Intelligence officials said the perpetrators were loyalists of Maulana Fazlullah, a Pakistani cleric who led a two-year Taliban insurgency in the northwestern Swat valley before fleeing into Afghanistan to escape an army offensive in 2009.