Britain's Lieutenant-General David Richards will fly to Islamabad on Monday and confront President Musharraf over Taliban operations in Pakistan.
LONDON: The commander of NATO troops in Afghanistan is to fly to Islamabad on Monday and confront President Pervez Musharraf over Taliban operations in Pakistan, The Sunday Times newspaper said.
Britain's Lieutenant-General David Richards was to meet Musharraf in the Pakistani city of Quetta where deposed Taliban leader Mullah Omar is said to be living openly, and ask for his arrest, said the British weekly.
Richards was also to try to persuade Musharraf to rein in his military intelligence service, which the NATO commander believes is training Taliban fighters to attack British forces.
Richards says he has videos and satellite pictures of Taliban training camps inside Pakistan, according to The Sunday Times.
He has also compiled the addresses of other senior Taliban figures.
Musharraf has publicly acknowledged "a Taliban problem on the Pakistan side of the border", Richards said, according to the broadsheet.
"We've got to accept that the Pakistan government is not omnipotent and it isn't easy but it has to be done and we're working very hard on it.
"I'm very confident that the Pakistan government's intent is clear and they will be delivering on it."
Saturday marked the fifth anniversary of the start of operations to oust the Islamist Taliban regime from power in Afghanistan and stop the country being used as a terrorist training camp by Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda terror network.
NATO commanders from five countries who have troops stationed in Afghanistan -- the United States, Britain, Canada, Denmark and the Netherlands -- are demanding their governments get tough with Pakistan over its support for the Taliban militia, The Daily Telegraph reported on Friday.
"It is time for an 'either you are with us or against us' delivered bluntly to Musharraf at the highest political level," an unnamed NATO commander told the British newspaper.
"Our boys in southern Afghanistan are hurting because of what is coming out of Quetta."
NATO took over control of all foreign troops in Afghanistan on Thursday, with Richards in command.
The transfer saw 10,000 US troops who had been operating in the east under the US-led coalition fall under the 37-nation International Security Assistance Force, boosting it to about 31,000 soldiers nationwide.
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