US inks border pact with Pak

The US has signed a border management pact with Pakistan to check the movement of Taliban and al-Qaeda insurgents in the restive northern areas bordering Afghanistan.

The two countries signed a 1 million pact as part of a joint plan to bolster the capabilities of Pakistan8217;s border security forces and enhance the Frontier Corps FC by raising an additional 50 platoons to protect the 286-kilometre Frontier Regions border from infiltration by the Taliban and al-Qaeda militants.

8220;Pakistan and the United States have a long-term relationship and supporting the FC is part of that relationship,8221; said Nita Lowey, chairperson of the US House Appropriation Subcommittee on State and Foreign Operation, who was heading a congressional delegation at the signing ceremony on Saturday.