US, Pakistan in Border Talks as NATO Discuss Afghan Drawdown

摘要

The top US commander in Afghanistan has held talks with Pakistan's army chief in Islamabad recently aimed at improving border coordination. Despite the disagreements between the two countries, the May 13 talks between Gen John Allen and Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani indicate some level of progress in the relationship, almost six months after American airstrikes accidentally killed 24 Pakistani soldiers along the frontier. The US air strikes plunged Pakistan's relations with the United States, already frayed by the discovery of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, into their worst crisis since Pakistan joined the US-led war effort in 2001.