Nato 'concerned' over Pakistan

Nato's most senior military commander has expressed concern about deals between the Pakistani government and militants in Pakistan's tribal areas.

In a BBC interview, Nato's supreme commander, Gen John Craddock, said he feared such deals could help Taleban militants in neighbouring Afghanistan.

But Gen Craddock said that the Taleban were also weaker than three years ago.

The US and other Western countries have also expressed concern about the deals with militants near the Afghan border.

The west is worried that if such agreements lead to the wholesale withdrawal of the Pakistani military from the tribal areas, militants will have even more freedom to slip across the border into Afghanistan.

- BBC