Talks between Pakistani and US army commanders to discuss recent incursions by Afghan-based US troops into Pakistan have been postponed for two days, the foreign ministry said on Tuesday.
The meeting was originally scheduled to take place on Tuesday near the remote village of Lwara Mandi on the mountainous Afghanistan-Pakistan border.
"It could not be held due to some logistical reasons," foreign ministry spokesman Masood Khan told AFP. "It will now be held at midday on Thursday, at the same venue."
US troops hunting Al-Qaeda and Taleban insurgents in south-east Afghanistan burst over the border into Lwara Mandi several times in May, according to residents on the Pakistani side. But Pakistani authorities have only defined two crossings, on May 2 and May 20, as "incursions" and lodged protests over them. Lwara Mandi straddles the border in tribal district of North Waziristan.
Masood Khan told reporters on Monday that both sides "will look at ways and means to co-ordinate better so that there's no misunderstanding, no miscommunication".
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