President Pervez Musharraf held a special meeting with top officials on Monday to discuss a new strategy to curb “Talibanisation” along the Afghan border, officials said. “The meeting was to review the security situation, especially in the border areas, and to prepare a recommendation for a new security initiative to curb extremism and terrorism,” a senior government official told AFP.The prime minister, the governor and chief minister of NWFP, the vice chief of army staff and the information minister also attended the meeting. “President Musharraf presided over the meeting lasting four hours. He will give details of the plan when he addresses the nation later this week,” the official said. “The plan envisages reinforcement of security ... and also establishment of peace committees in the region, that will entail involvement of local people,” he said. “The aim is to isolate foreign elements and their local allies.”