Military ruler Musharraf, a key US ally, told a jirga or grand tribal meeting in the northwestern city of Peshawar late Tuesday that they must live up to peace deals under which they agreed to oust foreign rebels.

Musharraf faces international pressure to crack down on insurgents based in the semi-autonomous tribal belt, who are allegedly involved in global terrorism and cross-border attacks on foreign forces in Afghanistan.

"Foreign terrorists are the biggest threat to our country and therefore they have to be flushed out", the official Associated Press of Pakistan quoted Musharraf as telling the meeting.

Pakistani authorities signed peace deals involving tribal elders and militants in the South Waziristan area in 2005, in North Waziristan in 2006 and the Bajaur area in March 2007.