Kabul: Afghanistan's relations with Pakistan have taken a turn for the worse, with the country's President Hamid Karzai warning Pakistan to stop its aggression and extend a hand for a "civilised relationship".

"They (Pakistan) must avoid acts of aggression against Afghanistan and attacks across the border by extremists must stop. We will not remain a silent spectator," London's 'Daily Telegraph' newspaper quoted Karzai as saying in an interview.

"I want to establish the parameters of our relationship with Pakistan. One, we want friendship. Two, we want trade and business links. Three, we want a civilised relationship with Pakistan."

Accusing Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf of betrayal despite the two countries having cordial ties following the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the US, Karzai said, "Both the US and Pakistan should have no illusions or doubt that this will not happen with the present attitude of Pakistan.

"We Afghans are an independent country and a sovereign people. We're not under the control of anyone," he added.

The latest tussle between the two neighbours is linked to a dispute over a joint US-Pakistan operation to seal the border in the Mohmand Tribal Agency area that lies between the two countries.

US troops on the Afghan side of the Durrand Line, the international border that divides the two countries, were supposed to seal the border to prevent Taleban infiltration into Pakistan.

Pakistani troops were supposed to do the same on their side, but Afghan authorities allege that the Musharraf regime is aiming to occupy the Mohmand Agency in a bid to remove a long-established no man's land and drug-smuggling route.

A tripartite commission is scheduled to meet over the weekend to solve the issue, sources here confirmed.

Authorities in London created the Durrand Line at the end of the 19th century to demarcate British India and Afghanistan. When the Indian subcontinent was partitioned in 1947, Afghanistan refused to recognise the line as it claimed territory in the new Pakistan.

ANI