Nato has launched talks with Pakistan on transporting supplies via the country to its expanding peacekeeping force in neighbouring Afghanistan, a spokesman said on Wednesday.
The 26-nation alliance notably hopes to deploy a "liaison officer" in Islamabad to help co-ordinate supplies for the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), said spokesman James Appathurai. In addition Nato has also raised the possibility of allowing Pakistani officers to attend Nato training colleges in Europe, he said.
The issues were broached during a visit to Islamabad last week by Nato deputy chief Alessandro Minuto Rizzo, who met President Pervez Musharraf alongside Nato's civil representative in Afghanistan Hikmet Cetin.
Nato, which has led ISAF in Afghanistan since 2003, is on the point of expanding operations into the more volatile south of the country.
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