President Pervez Musharraf said on Sunday that he will meet
Afghan President Hamid Karzai in Turkish capital Ankara to discuss
steps for the confidence building measures between the two
countries and to stop accusations against each other.
"It would be my effort that talks (with Mr Karzai) are held
(in)good atmosphere," President Musharraf told reporters on
departure for four-nation visit.
"Grounds realities must be understood and accusations against us
coming from there, coming from President Karzai must be stopped,"
he said.
Musharraf Sunday left for Warsaw on the first leg of his
four-nation visit to Poland, Spain, Bosnia Herzegovina and
Turkey.
The presidents of Pakistan and Afghanistan will visit Ankara on
April 29-30 for talks under Turkey's auspices aiming to cool
tensions between the two countries in the war against terror,
according to a statement issued earlier by Pakistan's Foreign
Ministry.
Turkey offered to host the meeting between Pakistani President
Pervez Musharraf and his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai with the
two countries at loggerheads in the fight against the
Taliban.
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Afghan officials accuse Islamabad of failing to prevent Taliban-led
militants from attacking Afghanistan from their bases in Pakistan's
tribal areas along their common border.
Pakistan denies the charges and says it has deployed 80,000
troops in the tribal areas on the border to hunt foreign militants
and curb cross-border movements of fighters.
(Xinhua News Agency April 23, 2007)
