Pakistan has decided to re-open supply routes that the United States and its allies have used to supply their troops in Afghanistan, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Tuesday.
Pakistan shut down the supply routes - stretching from Afghanistan through the lawless western tribal regions of Pakistan and down to the southern port of Karachi - last November after dozens of its troops were killed in a mistaken U.S. airstrike. Clinton said Tuesday she offered her "deepest regrets" to Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar for the "tragic incident."
"This is a tangible demonstration of Pakistan’s support for a secure, peaceful, and prosperous Afghanistan and our shared objectives in the region," Clinton said. "This will also help the United States and ISAF conduct the planned drawdown at a much lower cost. This is critically important to the men and women who are fighting terrorism and extremism in Afghanistan."
The routes offer a shorter and more direct route than the one NATO has been using since November that goes through Russia and other nations and avoids Pakistan altogether. The supply route will take on more significance as NATO troops prepare to depart Afghanistan by 2014 and will have to move heavy equipment and supplies out of Afghanistan for shipment from Karachi.
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Okay, I'll make this easy for you. You let someone use your property to get to another property. That someone accidently kills oh, say your dogs...so you don't let them cross your property again until they apoligize. What in the f is so hard to understand about that????
Pakistan is to this supply route like North Korea is to curtailing its nuclear program. They shut the route down from time to time after some "incident" and open it back up again after the U.S. pays a bunch of bribes under the table to its corrupt leaders. It's just leverage they use to extort payoffs just like North Korea uses threats of its nuke program to get foodstuffs (that its people never really seem to get, though their new "dear leader" looks fat enough to be an American).
Nothing to see here folks. Keep moving. Keep moving.
Excellent, now we can ramp up the killing of "Islamist extremist terrorists". I can't wait to stand in line to vote for more blood thirsty tyrants in November, woohoo!
Maybe you should try voting at a different time of day if the line is really long when you normally go. Just a thought to ponder.
nother defete for Obama policy to apologize.
learn to spell before you critifcize!
ARM is clearly a product of 'No Child Left Behind'.
Hmm, I wonder how much more money this will cost us the US taxpayer now that the route is open?
No doubt there will be a substantial cost. Earlier they wanted over $1,500 per shipment, SINCE the start of the insane Afghanny war over 10 years ago.
It will be interesting to see the costs.
Well Done Pakistan this is how you bring it down to their knees
They may also miss the money we were sending them?
HEY, where is the story about the ICE agent shot in Texas– holder-you know anything about it??
So what your really saying here is that the check was received and cashed by their corrupt government...
Thanks, way to advertise that the US troops will be taking a known route... As though, people needed to know, and terrorists don't have internet access. Reminds me when Romney said we tracked phones...
I absolutely can't wait to start drinking
A question I do have here is there a clause or something in this Act that leaves the extra money in the til where the government cannot touch it and pilfer it like the Social security and the post office. By the way look up congress bill 2309 and the reason in 2006 Bush administration bill that is depleting the pensions of postal workers.
OOPS! Sorry wrong thread.
what's wrong with these bloggers, can not even spell words correctly?
There is always a catch in Pakistani's gesture of opening the route. What could it be? Of course, US Dollars online what else!!
No, Susan. Not can we spell well.
how much did that cost us?
As a retired Army officer, I would have to say in the tens of millions...by the department of the state clowns.
How much are they charging the USA per truck to pass now?
report says they are in fact reducing the transit fee to zero (from $250)