Pakistan's Gilani warns Obama over US Afghan troop plan

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Source: BBC

Pakistan has warned the US that sending more soldiers to Afghanistan could endanger its southwest border region.

President Barack Obama is expected next week to order more than 30,000 extra US soldiers into Helmand province, to battle Taliban insurgents.

But Pakistan prime minister Yusuf Raza Gilani fears this would force militants over the border into Balochistan.

"We want a stable Afghanistan. At the same time we don't want our country to be destabilised," said Mr Gilani.



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