AFGHANISTAN PAKISTAN

epa01086618 Pakistani Federal Minister for Food, Agriculture and Livestock Sardar Yar Muhammad Rind (2nd from down), Federal Minister for Culture Dr. G. G. Jamal (3rd from down), and Ali Mohammad Jan Orakzai (down), a tribesman who served as corps commander Peshawar until his retirement from Pakistan Army in March 2004, now the governor of the Pakistani North West Frontier Province and other tirbal representatives disembark from a Pakistan International Airliner upon arrival at Kabul International Airport to attend a joint Pakistan-Afghanistan Jirga (assembly) in Kabul Afghanistan 08 August 2007. The 700 tribal leaders and representatives of the restive mountainous border areas between Afghanistan and Pakistan, as well as the Prime Minister of Pakistan Shaukat Aziz and Afghan President Hamid Karzai will hold meetings from 09 August to 11 August to discuss ways to control cross-border infiltration and to collaborate in the fight against the Taliban and their Al Qaeda allies. EPA/SYED JAN SABAWOON

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