Pakistan leader to visit Kabul in peace push

November 30, 2013 01:07

Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is due to visit Kabul on Saturday, a trip that aims to push forward the Afghan government's stalled talks with the Taliban and spur joint economic projects that could ease Pakistan's chronic electricity crisis.

Sharif's visit'"his first to neighboring Afghanistan since taking office in June'"comes just as Afghan President Hamid Karzai is embroiled in a deepening crisis with the US, refusing to sign promptly a security agreement that would allow for some American troops to remain in Afghanistan after next year.

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