Afghan, Pakistani Leaders to Meet

Afghan President Hamid Karzai said he will meet with Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf this week to discuss Muslim terrorist activities along the border.

Karzai is in the United States for meetings with President George Bush at the presidential retreat at Camp David, Md., and told CNN he wanted more urgency and more importance to be placed on the insurgency in Afghanistan.

He and Musharraf have exchanged insults in the past several years, with each accusing the other of poor leadership in dealing with the al-Qaida and Taliban movements along the porous, mountainous border region.

The security situation in Afghanistan over the past two years has definitely deteriorated, Karzai told the network. I hope we can all speed up, increase and bring more effectiveness into this fight in this whole broader region, not in selective areas.

Musharraf, a military general, seized power in a 1999 coup.