Tensions are deepening between Pakistan's government and the United States military command over whether to allow alliance troops to cross the border from Afghanistan.
Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has backed his army chief in criticising unauthorised US-led coalition raids in the Afghanistan-Pakistan tribal belt. Helicopter-borne US commandos carried out a raid in Pakistan's South Waziristan last week, killing 20 people, including women and children. The US and Afghanistan say al Qaeda and Taliban militants are using the semi-autonomous tribal lands to orchestrate their insurgency in Afghanistan. Later on Thursday British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and US President George W. Bush are due to discuss a new strategy to deal with the region.
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