Malaysia is considering sending its first military medical team to Afghanistan, Defence Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said on Monday after meeting a senior US defence official. The comments came after a meeting with the US under secretary of defense for policy Michelle Flournoy during a regional defence conference. 'What we agreed to is there is a possibility that Malaysia will send a first- level medical team to Afghanistan,' Ahmad Zahid told reporters, without giving a date for the deployment. 'This is to show our commitment to achieving a peaceful situation in Afghanistan,' the minister said, adding that the plan would be further discussed when he visits Washington next month. Defence officials in Malaysia, a mainly Muslim country, said the military medical team was likely to consist of 10 members but details would be announced later. Prime Minister Najib Razak met US President Barack Obama ahead of a landmark 47-nation nuclear summit in Washington last week amid a warming of relations between the two countries. International troop numbers are set to peak at 150,000 by August as a push against the Taliban in their southern heartland intensifies. Afghan National Army (ANA) numbers are also increasing. The war against the Taliban, now in its ninth year, is claiming record fatalities among the 126,000 foreign troops in Afghanistan. 