NATO Regrets Pakistan Troop Deaths, Urges Route Reopening

[Areesh]

Aya na unte (camel) pahad (mountain) ke niche

unte pahad kai neechia hi tha, thora pahad kai neechai sai nikalnai ki koshish kar raha tha.

 

[SpArK]

NATO should have apologized for the deaths long time back.. anyway better late than never.

Hope the war against terror continues...

 

[Jungibaaz]

NATO should have apologized for the deaths long time back.. anyway better late than never.

Hope the war against terror continues...

The WOT would continue even if they didn't apologize, you see we know our politicians...in a week or two this story will be out of the news, everyone will forget about the brave soldiers and supply roots for NATO will re-open.

 

[marcos98]

Pakistan to reopen NATO supply line ‘relatively quickly’

Defense & Security News — By Agence France-Presse on October 4, 2010

PESHAWAR, Pakistan: A main land route used by NATO to deliver supplies to troops in Afghanistan will reopen "relatively quickly", Pakistan said Sunday, as Islamabad sent a team to probe a cross-border attack.

Pakistan blocked the crossing in its volatile northwest on Thursday after a NATO helicopter strike that Islamabad says killed three of its soldiers. The alliance said it shot back in self-defence.

After a flurry of phone calls and pressure from ally Washington, Hussain Haqqani, Pakistan's ambassador to Washington, told CNN's "State of the Union" programme that the transit route would reopen in "less than a week".

"I think the supply line will be open relatively quickly," he said.

He added: "It's not a blockade. It's just a temporary suspension of the convoys moving through.

"I do not expect this blockade to continue for too long."

The Khyber pass at Torkham is on one of the key NATO supply routes through Pakistan into war-torn Afghanistan, where more than 152,000 US and NATO forces are fighting an increasingly emboldened Taliban-led insurgency.

The cross-border raid was the fourth in a week by NATO helicopters pursuing militants into Pakistan, which condemned the action as a serious breach of its sovereignty, threatening to destabilise ties with backer Washington.

A two-member Pakistan team led by Brigadier Usman Khattak, deputy inspector general of the Frontier Corps, travelled to Afghanistan on Saturday to join an investigation into the incident by the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and US officials, an official told AFP.

Brigadier Khattak has visited the site of the attack in the northwest tribal area of Kurram and held talks with troops deployed in the area, the Pakistani official said, requesting anonymity.

Queues of more than 200 trucks and oil tankers have formed at the border as they wait to deliver supplies.

"We are waiting for clearance from the customs authorities," a driver at the border told AFP.

The envoy Haqqani said that he had received a phone call from General David Petraeus, the US commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan.

"He understands Pakistan has not stopped it as a political retaliation but only to make convoys more secure," Haqqani said, adding the issue was unlikely to cause any permanent damage to future US-Pakistan cooperation.

"Pakistan is an American ally. America depends on Pakistan," Haqqani said.

"We can and do not do everything the Americans think we should do because sometimes we don't have the capacity, sometimes we don't have the means," he said.

Nevertheless, Haqqani continued: "We work those things out and that is exactly what we are doing right now.

"Minus all of the political noise, the fact remains that we are working together."

Washington has classified Pakistan's tribal belt on the Afghan border as a global headquarters of Al-Qaeda, a hub of militants fighting in Afghanistan and the most dangerous place on Earth.

 

[KS]

If you read my posts I have already stated that NATO officers who are involved in such killings should also be executed in return... Eye for an Eye...

Sorry you are talking with raw emotion and nothing else.

What if the Nato thinks enough is enough and packs its bags tomorrow?

You would still be fighting the TTP ,now with the active support of the "Good" Taliban , plenty of sanctuary,resting and re-grouping place in Afghanistan which in turn would cause the martyrdom of even more young Pakistani soldiers all without the active help of US under the WoT package.

So keep aside your emotions and think now.You like it or not George Bush forced Gen.Musharaf to hitch your wagons to that of NATO and the only success of Pakistan lies in the success of NATO and NATO only.

 

[Muhammad-Bin-Qasim]

As far as Soldier's families are concerned..the financial part is not that big of a deal because Pakistan Army takes good care of it's soldiers and their families but you cannot substitute real life with money.We should not over react and stay calm and pay NATO back in the same coin after things cool down and when it's totally unexpected.We should adopt chanakya strategy.We should be smarter then our counterparts.

We can do that even after demanding blood money for the murdered soldiers...

 

[Tuahaa]

Just close it forever.

 

[Jigs]

Quoting Asim Aquil:

" Apologies are cheap, blood is not.

We need some sort of state level assurance that attacks in Pakistan would cease".

We need a trial of those who were involved including the pilot, gunner and ground station staff!

Attacks would not cease. Not drone ones at least. They were still going on even after the closing.

 

[Tuahaa]

Drone attacks are increasing and increasing.

One just happened a few hours ago.

 

[Jigs]

Drone attacks are increasing and increasing.

One just happened a few hours ago.

Well it is the only thing the U.S. can do since everything else is not allowed they must use heavy drone strikes. But they are only effective against stationary targets.

 

[Illusive]

I don't understand what Pakistani officials are upto. If Pakistan is so important for US and NATO, then blocking the supplies won't do any good. Pakistan's cooperation is important to them. Pakistan should install SAM systems to show what they mean, it doesn't mean PAK has to attack. It has to take a stand, cooperation works two ways not one.

Taliban alone is tough to handle for US/NATO, if PAK gets aggressive then it would be more worrisome for them. Burning NATO trucks is just wasting resources.

 

[air marshal]

Supply to NATO remains suspended on 5th day

Supply to NATO troops via Pak-Afghan Torkham border, remained suspended on 5th consecutive day as container supply oil to NATO were not given permission to go to Afghanistan on Monday. According to private TV channel, more than 200 containers supply to NATO via Pak-Afghan Torkham border remained un cleared on 5th day.

The supply was suspended as few days ago NATO helicopters killed three Pakistani security personnel while carrying out operations in Pakistani territory.

A high level team of Pakistan Army has been sent to Afghanistan to probe violation of Pakistan territory while the team is discussing the matter with NATO officials there. On the other side, incident of attacks on NATO oil tankers is increasing day by day.

During night between Sunday and Monday Nato oil tankers were attacked in Islamabad. Pakistan declared the NATO attacks as a public reaction.

Meanwhile, Sihala police have filed case against unknown people on charge of attacking NATO oil tankers under the sections of murder and terrorism, and also arrested five suspects in this regard.

After the terrorism attack at NATO oil tankers, Interior Minister Rehman Malik has sought detailed report from IG Islamabad in 24 hour, in this regard.

Supply to NATO remains suspended on 5th day | Pakistan | News | Newspaper | Daily | English | Online

 

[air marshal]

 

[NaqsheYaar]

pakistan should keep as it is only for 3 more weeks and i bet nato and america will regret what they have done ...... our army needs to be bit patience ...

plus i have heard by someone that General Kiyani has called back their army men from the afghan border.........

Yes from the area where those posts were attacked. I heard the same.

 

[NaqsheYaar]

As far as Soldier's families are concerned..the financial part is not that big of a deal because Pakistan Army takes good care of it's soldiers and their families but you cannot substitute real life with money.We should not over react and stay calm and pay NATO back in the same coin after things cool down and when it's totally unexpected.We should adopt chanakya strategy.We should be smarter then our counterparts.

Revenge is served better when cold