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| Pakistan stops NATO supplies |
| 2008-09-06 |
| Pakistan stopped supplies to the United States and NATO forces in Afghanistan through its western Torkham border on Friday, citing security concerns. A senior official said the measure followed increasing Taliban threats to trucks carrying the supplies. "All Afghanistan-bound supplies for the International Security Assistance Force have been stopped as the [Torkham] highway is vulnerable," Khyber Agency Political Agent Tariq Hayat told Daily Times, dismissing the impression that the decision is a reaction to continued United States attacks in Waziristan. "This decision has nothing to do with the situation in Waziristan or the US attacks. This is purely a security issue and we want no untoward incident to take place as far as supplies for ISAF are concerned." The international Torkham Highway was closed for "vulnerable vehicles", he said referring to trucks carrying ISAF supplies, and the supplies would resume after the highway was cleared. The political agent did not say how long the highway would take to be cleared, but added that other traffic would be allowed on the road. A senior border official at Torkham, 58 kilometres west of Peshawar, said the closure of the highway would also affect the US forces, which get fuel, food and other military supplies through Torkham crossing points. The coalition forces also get supplies through the Chaman border in Balochistan, but the bulk of the supplies goes through Torkham -- a shorter route for Kabul where the US and NATO forces are based. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 I wonder if the Paks are doing it for public consumption. Hold things up for a while, posture a bit, then quietly let the convoys go through again. Or are they trying to throw their weight around? We do have a lot of aid, like proposed F-16s and stuff supposedly heading to the Paks. We are trying to rein in India w/r/t Pakistan. We will just have to see what develops in the next week. It is not quite the time to go apesh*t. Though we should have done it years ago. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2008-09-06 22:16 |
| #3 Payback for the latest raid on the talipaks no doubt. |
| Posted by: Elming Panda6180 2008-09-06 17:25 |
| #2 So give them 3 billion a year. |
| Posted by: Regional Peace 2008-09-06 16:34 |
| #1 GTFO of the way and let US secure the supply routes. We'll handle all the Taliban in Pakistan while we're at it. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2008-09-06 00:14 |