ISLAMABAD, June 27: Pakistan Army Chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani on Wednesday held a hush-hush meeting with Isaf Commander General John Allen in Rawalpindi and Inter Services Public Relations kept quiet on matters taken up at the meeting.

But it is widely believed that the army leadership demanded actions by Isaf forces against Afghanistan-based militants who attacked a Pakistani checkpost in Dir on Sunday, killing 13 security officials.

Despite repeated attempts, newly-appointed ISPR Director General Maj General Asim Bajwa could not be contacted for his comments on the meeting.

But, according to sources, everything, including blocked Nato supply lines, operational details which the two sides regularly discuss and border incursions from both sides, came under discussion.

On many occasions in the past, the US/Nato forces and Afghan government have accused Pakistan of not acting against militant networks allegedly based in Pakistan, especially the Haqqnai network. Likewise, Pakistan believes that Nato and Afghan security forces have failed to act against militants crossing to the Pakistani side of the border from Afghanistan.

“Although it was a routine meeting, due to latest border incursion which resulted in the killing of 13 Pakistani security officials, it achieved prominence in the media,” a security official who follows such meetings said.

“Yes, these meetings are primarily meant to shore up cooperation between the two sides, because they are engaged against a common enemy across the Pak-Afghan border,” he said.

Talking to Dawn, a Foreign Office official said that Pak-US relations had witnessed so many twists and turns that nothing could be said with surety when and how Pakistan would reopen Nato supply lines.

However, he said, the two sides had not lost hope and believed that sooner or later they would reach some agreement and Nato forces would be allowed to use Pakistani routes for their supply lines.