Ankara to host Pakistan-Afghanistan summit

Turkey will host a summit of Afghanistan and Pakistan next Wednesday. Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai and his Pakistani counterpart Ali Asif Zardari will meet in Ankara as the guests of President Abdullah Gul. Intelligence officials and chiefs of general staff of both countries will also reportedly attend the summit. Turkey also brought together the presidents of the two countries at tripartite summits in 2007 and 2008.