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Thu Jul 19, 2012, 02:17 AM Jul 2012

UK and Pakistan PMs hold talks with Afghan president

Source: BBC

Afghan President Hamid Karzai is holding talks in Kabul with the prime ministers of both Britain and Pakistan.

UK PM David Cameron will sign a deal to build an officer's training academy modelled on Sandhurst.

And it will be President Karzai's first meeting with Pakistan's new Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf.

Afghanistan is facing the withdrawal of international troops in 2014, and received $16hn (£10.3bn) in aid pledges at a conference earlier this month.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-18897689

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