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| Pakistan reopens main land NATO supplies route | |
| 2010-10-10 | |
| Pakistan’s foreign ministry on Saturday announced the reopening of the main land route for NATO supplies crossing into Afghanistan from Torkham in the northwest “with immediate effect”. Torkham lies on the main NATO supply route to Afghanistan, where US and NATO forces are fighting a nine-year Taliban insurgency, and is thus vital to the Afghan war effort. “After assessing the security situation in all its aspects, the government has decided to reopen the NATO/ISAF supply from the Pakistan-Afghanistan border at Torkham with immediate effect,” the ministry said in a statement, referring to NATO’s International Security Assistance Force. “Our relevant authorities are now in the process of coordinating with authorities on the other side of the border to ensure smooth resumption of the supply traffic.” Pakistan shut the route at Torkham in protest at a cross-border NATO helicopter attack that officials blamed for the deaths of three Pakistani soldiers. The alliance said its personnel had fired back in self-defence. The US ambassador to Pakistan Anne Patterson Wednesday apologised on behalf of the American people for the “terrible accident”. Patterson said Thursday in a statement: “A joint investigation of the incident had established that the US helicopters had mistaken the Pakistani Frontier Scouts for insurgents they had been pursuing.”
The Pakistani Taliban have vowed more raids to avenge a new wave of US drone strikes targeting Taliban and Al-Qaeda militants in the northwest. | |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #1 let the message go out: "shoot at our choppers and drones, be prepared to die" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2010-10-10 10:40 |