Posted on 10/03/2010 1:34:10 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
ISLAMABAD -Pakistan will soon reopen a key NATO supply route into Afghanistan that it shut last week after three Pakistani troops were killed in a helicopter strike by the military alliance in a border area, officials said Sunday. Pakistan closed the Torkham border crossing in the country's northwest on Thursday in an apparent protest over the helicopter strike, the third such incursion into Pakistan in less than a week. Foreign Office spokesman Abdul Basit said, however, that the route had been closed because of public reaction in the area to the NATO strikes, and that it would be reopened once things normalize. "The supply has been suspended because of security reasons and it will be resumed as soon as these reasons are addressed," he told The Associated Press. Pakistan's ambassador to the U.S., Husain Haqqani, said on CNN's State of the Union program Sunday that he did "not expect this blockade to continue for too long." Asked whether it could be opened within the next week, he said "I think it will happen in less than that duration."
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The route surely will have to be reopened, although it might not be as easy and automatic as this article states.
A problem with Afghanistan is the geography - there are only a few routes through the mountains which are passable, and only a few highways in Pakistan leading to those locations.
And it hasn’t changed much since Rudyard described it.
LOL! Rudyard was the man! He set it out all very accurately.
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