ISLAMABAD - Top US commander in Afghanistan General John Allen is expected to arrive in Islamabad, Pakistan's capital, on Wednesday to discuss the resumption of NATO supply routes, amid recent protests by religious political parties.
A media wing of the Pakistani army in Rawalpindi, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), in a statement said Allen would meet Chief of Army Staff Ashfaq Parvez Kayani to discuss the restoration of the supply routes.
The military leaders will oversee the developments on implementation of cross-border contact as well, it said.

NATO supply routes in Pakistan had been closed since last November, after a NATO airstrike killed 24 Pakistani soldiers in the Mohmand tribal region near the Afghan border.
US and Pakistani diplomats held several rounds of talks to resolve the deadlock but no viable solution had been reached so far.

Religious political parties staged series of demonstrations in Karachi, Peshawar and other cities against the possible reopening of the routes.

Allen's visit comes a day after Islamabad lodged strong protest with NATO and Afghan officials over recent cross-border attacks by insurgents crossing into Pakistan from eastern Afghan province of Kunar.

Pakistan's Foreign Ministry on Monday said the deputy head of Afghan mission in Islamabad was called to the Foreign Office and a strong protest was lodged on "the intrusion of militants from the Afghan side into Pakistani territory."

The Afghan diplomat was informed that "the government of Afghanistan should take appropriate measures to prevent recurrence of similar incidents in future," the Foreign Office said in a statement.

The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force in Kabul said it was aware of the report, but had no information.

The Foreign Office said about 100 militants from across the border entered Dir district and clashed with a Pakistani security forces patrolling party. (Pajhwok)