Islamabad, Sept 10: A meeting of US, Pakistani and Afghan officials to discuss the volatile Pakistani-Afghan frontier has been postponed for logistical reasons, a US official said today. The commission, set up in April to examine alleged Taliban infiltration and demarcation disputes along the porous 2,450 kilometre border, was due to hold its fifth round of talks here today.

"The tripartite meeting was postponed, no reasons given other than just some logistical problems," US Embassy spokesman Bruce Kleiner told a news agency. The postponement, only revealed today, came as Pakistani security forces went on full alert for possible terror attacks to coincide with the second anniversary of the September 11 terror strikes in the united states.

A Pakistani security official told a news agency on condition of anonymity that US agencies had passed on indications of a possible attack in Pakistan around the anniversary.

At its last meeting in Kabul in August the three sides agreed to set up a hotline between Pakistan and Afghanistan to discuss border disputes. Afghan officials charge that Taliban remnants are regrouping in Pakistan's remote western tribal lands and infiltrating back into Afghanistan to wage a violent insurgency against aid workers, troops and officials.

They are blamed for one of the bloodiest months in the war-shattered country since the Taliban were driven from power by a US-led military assault.

Bureau Report