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DCC to discuss reopening NATO supply
 


May 15, 2012 - Updated 1224 PKT
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ISLAMABAD: The country’s top leadership will meet today (Tuesday) to discuss ending a nearly six-month blockade on NATO supplies into Afghanistan.

 

The meeting will also include discussions on how to repair relations with the United States.

 

Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar said on Monday that it was time to "move on", conceding a key demand from the West in time for Pakistan to attend the NATO summit in Chicago on Sunday and Monday.

 

Islamabad shut its Afghan border to NATO supplies after US air strikes killed 24 soldiers in November, provoking a new crisis in relations on top of the outcry from the US raid that killed Osama bin Laden the previous May.

 

Pakistan has called in vain for an end to US drone strikes targeting Taliban and Al-Qaeda militants on its soil, and a formal apology for the November killings.

But analysts say Pakistan has no choice but to reopen the border when US cash is needed to help boost its meagre state coffers, at a time when major NATO discussions are underway affecting its own strategic future. (AFP)

 
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Reader Comments
Europeans and NATO have no business in Pakistan. If they want, they can get a supply route thru Iran which is more Aryan and European than Pakistan. The competent leadership can only come to pakistan thru the non-party basis elections as in Iran and whetted thru the guardian council mechanism.

Muhib Watan
Spain
Pakistan needs an HONEST, COMPETENT and INSPIRING leadership. Iran got that in the hardest times of the revolution. However, many scientists were produced in the time of the Shah. The need in this time is to get RID of the USA and NATO and start work on our own. We dont have oil but we should work on the coal gasification using the Fischer Tropsch process and if the Arab countries give us a facility and help that would be nice of them.

Ahmad Nawaz
USA
Pakistan MUST understand that it needs China more than China needs Pakistan for its survival. Nobody should continue to live in the fools Paradise assuming that China would come to rescue Pakistan when the politicians of Pakistan are providing the bases,routes and the supplies to be used against China.

Look Beyond...
Pakistan
The PPP government and its representative PM Gilani possess the GREAT COURAGE to lick their own spit back. Definitely, there are not many people left in the world who can do it.

The lost friend
China
What about the 24 Shaheeds, these traitors are selling the blood of our people, where are the people of Pakistan, come on people of pindi and islamabad just, come out of hour houses and start marching towards the parliament, yes hundreds will die, but eventually the police will not be able to fight the people....come on lets move...

F Malik
United Kingdom
Does it mean that US has freedom of carrying out many more Salala Type actions and much more and we will act as obliged servants thanking US that she killed our sons who dared to open fire on intruding US helis? We are simply a bunch of hypocrites having no respect, we are not a nation.

Asghar Ali
Pakistan
The lives of 24 Pakistani soldiers forgotten by Khar and her masters in less than 6 months, if this was a western country or even India these routes will never be allowed to open, what a gutless and spineless leadership, these people are a disgrace and not one of these in the National Assembly should ever be elected, the people should never choose the faces they see on tv every day again....but than again this is pakistani public, they never learn...

F Mir
United Kingdom
Very beggars can't be choosers.

Haris Maqsood
Pakistan
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