Kabul, July 26: After a month in which a mob ransacked Pakistan's embassy in Afghanistan and border clashes broke out between the two countries, Afghan president Hamid Karzai has invited Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf to visit, an official said today. Musharraf accepted the invitation during a phone conversation between the two heads of state yesterday, but no date has been set for the visit, said foreign ministry spokesman Omar Samad. ``Generally, both sides are moving toward putting relations back on track, but that doesn't mean all the issues have been resolved,'' Samad told the associated press. ``We still have some pretty important issues that have to be taken up by Pakistan and we expect some action on their part.''
One of those issues was the persistent allegation made by both the afghan government and the US Military that insurgents are using Pakistani territory to launch cross-border raids into Afghanistan. ``We hope that in this regard they (Pakistan) will put in more efforts to block the passage of terrorists and armed Taliban into Afghanistan,'' Samad said.
Pakistan has deployed thousands of troops along the porous border. But tribesmen in the area are sympathetic to the ousted Taliban, espouse a brand of Islam similar to theirs and openly say they would give them refuge.

Another issue the two sides would discuss was the report of a committee investigating the border clashes. Samad said the committee, dispatched earlier this month and made up of representatives of Pakistan, Afghanistan and the united states, was still ``trying to determine what has happened.''
Bureau Report