BERLIN (AFP) - Regional governors from Afghanistan warned that failure by Western powers to coordinate their military deployment and aid could ultimately play into the hands of the Taliban. During a visit to Berlin on a European tour, the regional leaders said dividing up their country among the various national contingents of the NATO-led stabilisation force was undermining the fight against the Al-Qaeda-backed insurgency. "They have distributed provinces by countries," the governor of Laghman province in eastern Afghanistan, Lutfallah Mashal, said of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF). "Why are they not working jointly? Why are there different commands?" Mashal said some members of the alliance had gained a reputation as softer targets and that the force was only as strong as its weakest link. "The enemies are thinking: 'Some countries are friendly towards us and some countries are very aggressive toward us'," he told reporters. He said countries such as Germany which have refused to deploy combat troops in the south needed to work against this perception. "They have to follow one single strategy and have good coordination," he said. "There should be very effective and practical coordination between the allied forces." Mashal said there was little Afghan security forces could do as long as the border with Pakistan remained porous for weapons smugglers and rebel fighters. He said Afghan officials did not blame the Pakistani government. "But there are certain circles in the intelligence department of Pakistan, in the religious circles and some political parties that do support the Taliban," Mashal said. "They provide them with logistical supplies, shelter, training." The other two governors present, Gul Aghan Sherzai of Nangarhar province in the east and Abdul Jabar Haqbeen of Baghlan in the south, said Western countries needed to step up their military and humanitarian aid, particularly in the south where the insurgency has been bloodiest. They said they had asked German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble to push for the creation of more police training centres in the provinces instead of concentrating them in Kabul. ISAF includes 47,000 soldiers from 40 countries who work alongside a separate US-led coalition numbering about 20,000 and the Afghan security forces to defeat extremist violence. Nearly 70 per cent of the foreign forces are based in southern and eastern Afghanistan where the violence is most deadly. The Taliban was ousted for harbouring Al-Qaeda leaders in late 2001 after the September 11 attacks on the United States. The US, Britain and Canada have called on their NATO allies to provide more resources for Afghanistan, saying they are bearing the brunt of the uprising focused in the south of the country.