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Pakistan leader arrives in Afghanistan

Iran Materials 6 September 2006 16:10 (UTC +04:00)

(AP) - Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf arrived in Kabul on Wednesday for talks with his Afghan counterpart on combatting terrorism and improving security cooperation between the two nations, both key players in the U.S.-led war on terror, reports Trend.

Musharraf landed at the Kabul International Airport with a high-level Pakistani government delegation for two days of meetings with Afghan President Hamid Karzai.

The visit comes amid accusations by both countries that the other is doing too little to crack down on militants operating on either side of their porous, mountainous 1,470-mile-long frontier, where al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden is believed to be hiding.

The talks also come days ahead of the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, which led to the toppling of Afghanistan's Taliban regime for harboring bin Laden and Musharraf's decision to switch his country's support from the Taliban to the U.S.-led campaign against terror.

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