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Petraeus flies into Pakistan for govt talks
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ISLAMABAD (AFP) - - General David Petraeus, the commander of US forces in Afghanistan and Iraq, flew into Pakistan on Tuesday for top-level talks with the government in Islamabad, embassy and security officials said.
Petraeus, who supports a major troop surge in neighbouring Afghanistan, was expected to hold talks with Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani in Islamabad, a Pakistani official said.
"He has arrived in Islamabad on a one-day visit only. He will meet the prime minister and the president," the security official told AFP on condition of anonymity.
Another local security official said talks would focus on heightened tension between India and Pakistan, an expected surge of US troops in neighbouring Afghanistan and tension in the lawless, tribal border areas.
Pakistan has reacted angrily to US airstrikes against Al-Qaeda and Taliban militants on its territory and the country's powerful army has vowed to defend its sovereignty, even if that means clashes with US forces.
US embassy spokesman Lou Fintor confirmed that Petraeus had arrived in Islamabad for "scheduled meetings with senior Pakistani civilian and military government officials on issues of joint concern".
The visit came just hours before Barack Obama was due to be inaugurated in Washington.
The incoming US president has identified battling Al-Qaeda and Taliban militants in Afghanistan as one of his administration's priorities.
Remnants of the hardline Taliban regime, which was toppled from power by the US-led invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, are waging an insurgency undermining the US-backed government of Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
The US military announced in December that additional reinforcements of 20,000 to 30,000 troops are set to be sent to Afghanistan, where about 70,000 international troops are fighting alongside Afghan security forces.
Petraeus, lauded for turning round a Sunni insurgency in Iraq with a 30,000 troop "surge", this month called for a regional approach to resolving the conflict in Afghanistan, including Pakistan and perhaps even US foe Iran.
Afghanistan and Pakistan, he said "have, in many ways, merged into a single problem... the way forward in Afghanistan is incomplete without a strategy that includes and assists Pakistan."
Islamabad says it is fighting armed groups in its lawless borderlands, despite allegations of collusion between security forces and Islamic militants launching cross border attacks on Afghan and NATO troops.
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