US, Australia press Pakistan on Afghan border security

The US and Australia on Friday urged Pakistan to do more to control militant activities in its border areas to stem the growing insurgency in Afghanistan. The call came at a joint news conference by Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith and US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who was on a brief visit to the Western Australia capital Perth. "What we need to do is look hard at how the Taliban is regrouping, why the Taliban is fighting in the way they are now," Rice said in response to a question about Pakistan's efforts along the border. "They generally are taken on and defeated pretty handily when they come in actual military formations.

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