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ISLAMABAD, Nov. 29-- A high level Afghan military delegation is scheduled to arrive in Pakistan on Thursday for talks on security issues, focusing on anti-terror cooperation, the Afghan embassy said here on Wednesday. The Afghan embassy said the seven-member delegation will be headed by Afghan Chief of General Staff General Mohammad Habib Hesary. The delegation will also have other high ranking officials from the Afghan Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the intelligence National Directorate of Security, according to the embassy. The formal talks are set for Dec. 1. Pakistani security sources also confirmed the visit but offered no more comments. The Pak-Afghan military-to-military engagement is important as both countries currently face serious security challenges and Pakistan calls for Afghanistan's cooperation to secure the border and stop the illegal crossing of the militants, who are blamed for violence in both countries. Pakistani security officials insist the Pakistani militants, who have fled to Afghanistan as a result of military operations, operate from the Afghan border regions and routinely carry out attacks on Pakistani border posts. On Nov. 13, Pakistan's military said two security personnel were killed in terrorists' firing from the Afghan side of the border. That was the fourth terrorist attack on Pakistani border posts from the Afghan side of the border in two months, which claimed the lives of five Pakistani soldiers. | 
