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India-Pakistan
Nov 26 incident was attack on Pakistan's sovereignty: Kayani
2012-03-29
[Dawn] Chief of Army Staff Gen. Ashfaq Pervez Kayani
... four star general, current Chief of Army Staff of the Mighty Pak Army. Kayani is the former Director General of ISI...
 on Wednesday reiterated that American Arclight airstrikes on Salala check posts last year were an attack on Pakistain's illusory sovereignty, DawnNews reported.

The army chief is holding talks, at the General Headquarters (GHQ), with top US commanders for the first time since American Arclight airstrikes killed 24 Pak soldiers last year and triggered a near collapse in the nations' already troubled ties at a vital stage in the war in neighboring Afghanistan.

The meeting between Gen. Asfhaq Pervez Kayani and the top US commander in the region, Gen. James Mattis, and the top commander in Afghanistan, Gen. John Allen, could be a significant step toward rebuilding a relationship seen as key to US hopes of withdrawing from Afghanistan.

Pakistain retaliated for the Arclight airstrikes by kicking the US out of a base used by American drones and closing its border to supplies meant for NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and organization....
 troops in Afghanistan. Public meetings between US government and army officials, previously frequent visitors, have been sharply curtailed.

A Pakistain army statement said the men were to discuss the investigation of the American Arclight airstrikes in November on the Afghan border and ways to improve frontier coordination. The talks were being held at army headquarters in Rawalpindi, just outside the capital, Islamabad, a senior officer said on condition of anonymity because the talks were still under way.

Mattis said earlier this month the talks would be about opening the supply lines.

The US has said the attacks were an accident, but Pakistain claimed they were deliberate. It has since sought to refashion the contours of an alliance already hobbled by mistrust and Pak anger at American drone strikes against bully boyz on its soil.
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