MONTREAL, Sept 12: Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf will visit Canada late this month for talks with Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien, a government spokesman Steven Hogue said on Thursday.

“The president plans to visit Canada around Sept 26, but that will be confirmed later,” he said.

The announcement came as Gen Musharraf acknowledged reports of Pakistani support for Afghani Taliban in tribal zones of western Pakistan were “partially true.”

Canadian Foreign Minister Bill Graham met in Kabul on last Friday with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and with Musharraf in Islamabad on Saturday, on the border situation between the two countries.

On Thursday evening the main base of the International Security Force in Afghanistan, to which Canada is the largest contributor with some 1,900 troops, was hit by a rocket fire, but there were no reported injuries, witnesses said.—AFP