Washington: The USadministration has said both Indiaand Pakistan have interestin stability and prosperity of Afghanistan.

US spokesman Sean McCormack,in response to a question on infiltration in Afghanistansaid it was not just Pakistanbut the region as a whole including Indiahas an interest in the stability and prosperity of Afghanistan.

"Pakistan has aninterest in a stable, prosperous, democratic Afghanistan. The rest of the region-- you point out India.The rest of the region has an interest in that as well. And clearly the rest ofthe world does as well," he said.

Terrorism across the borders of Pakistan and Afghanistan is still a problem andan issue that the governments in both Kabul and Islamabad are quite aware of,he said stressing that the issue of stability in that part of the world meanshaving to address infiltration going both ways by the Taliban.

"It's still a problem," said McCormack said talking of cross borderterrorism on the Afghan-Pakistan borders.

"And the Afghan Government knows it, the Pakistani Government knows it,and we have been involved and continue to be involved with both Governments. Wehave a trilateral commission that is set up to improve the communicationsbetween the two governments as well as to improve the effectiveness of theirefforts to stop cross-border infiltrations going both ways" he added.

He said both Pakistan and Afghanistanhave responsibilities in this regard.

"They have improved their coordination. They have improved somewhat theeffectiveness of that coordination, but there is clearly a lot more that needsto be done" McCormack said.

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