Pakistan wants more cooperation with Afghanistan in anti-terror war

President Gen. Pervez Musharraf issued the call while meeting with Afghan Foreign Minister Rangeen Dadfar Spanta in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad.

Photo: Pakistan wants more cooperation with Afghanistan in anti-terror war

Pakistan wants more cooperation with Afghanistan in anti-terror war

Aslam provided no further details, but Musharraf's comments came a day after Afghan President Hamid Karzai said "foreign factors" were partly to blame for his country's continued instability and violence.

Karzai did not elaborate on which "foreign factors" were involved, but many Afghan officials routinely accuse Pakistan of doing too little to catch Taliban militants staging attacks from inside Pakistani territory on Afghan and coalition forces in Afghanistan, according to the AP.

Islamabad denies such claims and says it has posted 80,000 soldiers along its porous, mountainous 2,450-kilometer-long (1,470-mile-long) border with Afghanistan to try block militants crossing in and out of both countries.