CANBERRA (AFP)--Australia offered to help train more Pakistani military officers Wednesday and committed AUD12 million ($9 million) to humanitarian aid efforts in the country's troubled northwest.
The announcements came as Gen. Tariq Majid, the chairman of Pakistan's joint chiefs of staff, visited Canberra to update officials on the fight against Taliban militants in the Swat valley.
Defense minister Joel Fitzgibbon said Pakistan was facing complex challenges maintaining security and that success fighting the Taliban on its own soil was critical to regional and global security.
Fitzgibbon said Australia would lift the number of places for Pakistani officers in its military training programs from 10 to 70 next year.
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