The military commanders of Pakistan and Afghanistan will meet "regularly to discuss and debate strategic issues", said a senior Pakistan intelligence official in an interview with IHS Jane's on 28 January, a week after high-level military commanders from both sides made reciprocal visits. The official said co-operation between the two states "has especially deepened following the 16 December" Taliban attack on a school in Pakistan's northern city of Peshawar, which killed 150 people, mostly teenagers. A day after the Peshawar attack, Pakistan's army chief, General Raheel Sharif, visited Afghanistan and urged Afghan civil and . military leaders to immediately order Afghan forces to attack Taliban sanctuaries in Afghanistan, close to Pakistan's border. Pakistan's military and intelligence officials say the militants involved in the Peshawar attack were receiving instructions from handlers inside Afghanistan.
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