BANGKOK: Fighting terrorism and cracking down on smuggling across their restive border will top the agenda at Friday's talks between Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak and Thailand's junta, officials said.

Thailand's three Muslim-majority southernmost provinces are plagued by a bloody insurgency, and the porous 650-kilometre (400 mile) border with Malaysia is also a crime hotbed, criss-crossed by human traffickers, drug mules and weapon smugglers.

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