Pakistan to send 10,000 more troops to Afghan border

Pakistan will deploy an extra 10,000 troops to guard the Afghan border, Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri said Tuesday.

A total of 90,000 troops will attempt to prevent the Taliban from using bases in Pakistan to attack targets in Afghanistan.


Pakistani troops guard the mountain region of Shawal along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. AFP/File/Aamir Qureshi photo via Yahoo News.

Kasuri said that Pakistan has the highest stakes in Afghanistan's future stability.

Taliban forces have conducted recent offensives in Afghanistan demonstrating their greatest resurgence since being ousted and since the establishment of the Karzai government.