Fed up with accusations it allows Taliban fighters to cross into Afghanistan, Pakistan has offered to erect a fence between the two countries to prevent incursions from either side. Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf made the offer during talks with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in New York, Pakistani Foreign Minister Khursheed Mehmood Kasuri said after the 75-minute meeting.
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General Musharraf and Dr Rice are among scores of foreign leaders and ministers in New York for the UN World Summit. Gen Musharraf is expected to meet US President George W Bush this week. "Pakistan is prepared to raise a fence so that we can put an end to these allegations," a spokesman for the Pakistani President said. The spokesman did not specify exactly where and when a fence could be erected, how long it would be, or who would pay for it. "Pakistan can do nothing more than that to prevent incursions," he said. "We are fed up of people who say we have to do more."
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Relations between Afghanistan and Pakistan have been strained because of complaints from the Government in Kabul that Islamabad could do more to stop Taliban fighters infiltrating from Pakistan's tribal areas. |