Pakistan blinks, reopens NATO supply routes

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U.S. Negotiators Will Leave Pakistan Without Deal To Reopen Supply Route

The United States is pulling a team of negotiators from Pakistan and they will be leaving without securing a deal to reopen an important military supply line into Afghanistan.

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"'I believe that some of the team left over the weekend and the remainder of the team will leave shortly,' George Little, a Pentagon spokesman, told reporters. 'This was a U.S. decision.'"

If you remember, Pakistan closed its border with Afghanistan to NATO forces after an American airstrike killed 24 Pakistani troops in November. The talks have been ongoing, and just late last month when NATO leaders met in Chicago, rumors of a deal swirled.

But last week, Panetta issued scathing comments on Pakistan, saying the U.S. was "reaching the limits of our patience" with the country.

As NPR's Julie McCarthy told Weekend Edition, the relationship between the two countries has been on "an accelerating downward spiral."

Julie told Rachel Martin:

"The harsh language you mentioned coming from Washington is really kind of proof of that. The Obama administration took office with a generous outstretched hand to Pakistan. The U.S. offered big aid packages to strengthen the civilian government and to turn back the tide of this anti-American sentiment that so pervasive here.

"And, Rachel, the most recent one is this furor over the Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA hunt down Osama bin Laden. Many Pakistanis think he's a traitor. Capitol Hill calls him a hero and vows to cut off aid over his jailing. So aid is openly trumpeted as a means to punish Pakistan, and is losing its friend in Washington."

"The decision was reached to bring the team home for a short period of time," the BBC quotes Little as saying.
 

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its pakistan's right to negotiate for transit fee.its also business.
clearly everything is business in pakistan. the going rate for pakistanis seems pretty cheap by international standards.

whether you wear a burkha, or a pakistani military uniform, all one has to do is pay & get the job done.

since pakistan is so good at prostituting itself, it should announce the rates in advance so all countries can benefit.

instead of big game hunting against defenceless animals, the world can come to pakistan and hunt mullah sandwich, mullah diesel and mullah kiya-nahi
 

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Few more $$$$ and they will allow USA to kill half of their countrymen. For $ Pakistan can sell their wife, mother, daughter and if price is right themselves. So am not surprised.
true face of pakistan.

pakistan ka matlab kya? kisne mujhe kitna diya!!
 

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Pakistan is just like strip club whore more you pay her, more she will show.
 

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Pakistan is just like strip club whore more you pay her, more she will show.
even they have some standards. they might be stuck in that to feed their family, some reason.

pakistans self declared pious muslims though, are in it only for the money & have no sense of morals whatsoever.

for money, pakistanis will sell their ma-behen, their countrymen, their zameer.

no wonder even the saudis and others look down on pakistanis.

even india is figuring out everything is available in pakistan for a price.

India ready to pay Pakistan $10 million for Hafiz Saeed - India - DNA

bhaag hafiz bhaag, aandhi aayee!
 

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even they have some standards. they might be stuck in that to feed their family, some reason.

pakistans self declared pious muslims though, are in it only for the money & have no sense of morals whatsoever.

for money, pakistanis will sell their ma-behen, their countrymen, their zameer.

no wonder even the saudis and others look down on pakistanis.

even india is figuring out everything is available in pakistan for a price.

India ready to pay Pakistan $10 million for Hafiz Saeed - India - DNA

bhaag hafiz bhaag, aandhi aayee!
Of the 10 million sanctioned, half will be eaten up by our corrupt politicians and the other half by Paki politicians :rofl:
 

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Of the 10 million sanctioned, half will be eaten up by our corrupt politicians and the other half by Paki politicians :rofl:
thats ok..pakistan ka going rate aadha hi hain...5 mn was anyway too much for that flea bitten carcass hafiz....
rest the pakistanis can keep, and in return for handing india that cretin, pakis will kill fellow pakis...all iz good and all iz well...

after all, we have seen what happens if you give a dog a smack....it chases its own tail in anger...similarly each time the indians and americans give pakistan a smack ..india in '71 and kargil....or US nowadays....pakistanis kill their own super patriots ...eg Bhutto gets hanged, nawaz gets overthrown....or in recent days taliban attack their own masters the Pakistani SSG etc.

This is so well deserved.
PNS Mehran attack - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

At 13:00 hrs, when the operation officially ended, 18 sailors were reported to have been killed and 16 others wounded.[16] In all, it took approximately 16 hours to secure the base.[17]

we all know about how these paki navy scum were involved in the mumbai attacks.

so thanks to their greed for amrikan money, these idiots got killed by their own serpents.

we should also pay them to kill each other.

pakistan ka matlab kya? paise ke liyen jahannom main ja!!
 

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US pulls negotiators from Pakistan, no Nato supply deal - Hindustan Times

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First Published: 22:36 IST(11/6/2012)
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The United States is withdrawing its team of negotiators from Pakistan without securing a long-sought deal with Islamabad to allow trucks to again supply Nato troops in neighboring Afghanistan, the Pentagon said on Monday.

The decision is the latest sign of troubled ties with US, Pakistan beginning to look more like enemies

Islamabad and was announced just days after defence secretary Leon Panetta said the United States was reaching the limits of its patience because of the safe havens Pakistan offered to insurgents.

Pakistan's envoy to the United States had warned that Panetta's comments last Thursday in Kabul were unhelpful to efforts to narrow the differences between the two countries and came at a critical moment in negotiations.

Pentagon spokesman George Little said the decision to withdraw the negotiating team was not imposed by Pakistan. He said the team of negotiators had been there for about six weeks and deserved a rest.

"I believe that some of the team left over the weekend and the remainder of the team will leave shortly," Little told reporters.

"This was a US decision."

Pakistan closed ground supply routes through its territory last year to protest a cross-border Nato air attack that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers.

As a result, Nato has turned to countries to the north of Afghanistan for land routes as the US-led alliance begins a withdrawal of its forces from the country next year.

But resupplying troops in Afghanistan through the northern route is about 2-1/2 times more expensive than shipping items through Pakistan, a US defense official told Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity.

Little acknowledged that securing a deal with Pakistan remained a priority and said the team of negotiators could return at any moment. In the meantime, military officials attached to the US Embassy in Islamabad would be able to discuss the matter with Pakistani officials.

"We will continue to work through the (ground supply route) matter with Pakistan. And the members of the team that are leaving, or have, left are prepared to return to Islamabad at any moment to continue discussions in person," Little said.
Looks like the deal is not happening anytime soon... or perhaps till the time Pak runs out of money.
 

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US withdraws Nato supply negotiators from Pak

US withdraws Nato supply negotiators from Pak - Hindustan Times

he United States has withdrawn negotiators from Pakistan after talks failed to reopen vital Nato supply routes into Afghanistan, officials said on Monday.

The move signaled further strain in troubled Pakistani-US relations and followed harsh criticism last week from US defence secretary Leon Panetta that saw Pakistan's army chief refuse to meet a senior Pentagon official.

The negotiators had been in Pakistan for about six weeks, as US officials believed they were close to a deal with Islamabad to lift the blockade.

Pakistan shut its border to Nato supply convoys on November 26 after a botched US air strike killed 24 Pakistani soldiers.

But no breakthrough was imminent and there was no scheduled date for a resumption of the talks, Pentagon spokesman George Little told reporters. "The decision was reached to bring the team home for a short period of time," Little said.

But Washington has not given up on discussions with Islamabad, he said.

"That's not to be taken as a sign of our unwillingness to continue the dialogue with Pakistanis on this issue," he said, adding the negotiators are "prepared to return at any moment."

Members of the negotiating team, which included officials and legal advisers from the State and Defense departments, started to leave over the weekend and the remainder would soon return to the United States, Little said.

Pakistan's army chief, General Ashfaq Kayani, refused last week to meet senior Pentagon official Peter Lavoy, who traveled to Pakistan to try to resolve the dispute, officials said.

Lavoy, principal deputy assistant secretary of defense for Asian and Pacific security affairs, "was hoping to meet with General Kayani to work through this issue," Little said.

The roads through Pakistan are a crucial logistical link for Nato as it plans a withdrawal of most of the remaining 130,000-strong combat force in Afghanistan, along with vehicles and equipment, by the end of 2014.

But Washington has refused to apologize for the November air raid, infuriating Pakistan, and US officials have refused to pay several thousand dollars for each truck crossing the border, as reportedly demanded by Pakistan.

The White House said an agreement would be reached when Pakistan is ready.

"Most of the technical agreements have been worked out but there are still several issues outstanding. We believe that all can be resolved and we remain ready to conclude this agreement as soon as Pakistan is ready," spokesman Jay Carney said.

Pakistan sought to downplay the departure of the US team of "technocrats".

"There is no deadlock or a stalemate," foreign ministry spokesman Moazzam Ahmed Khan told AFP.

"They were involved in technical discussions and gave their input... We have negotiations with the US at different levels, including the political level, and those negotiations are continuing," he added.

Pakistan's ambassador to the United States, Sherry Rehman, said the border crossing was not closed "in a fit of pique or on impulse" and that 24 Pakistani soldiers had been killed in the US air strike, "absent an expression of remorse."

With the Pakistani roads shut, the US-led Nato force has relied on cargo flights and a network of northern road and rail routes -- negotiated with Russia and governments in Central Asia and the Caucasus.

But the northern routes are much longer and more expensive than the roads through Pakistan.

"As a technical matter, we could in theory do our work without the ground supply routes. It would certainly be better to have them open and less costly," Little said.

Relations have got steadily worse between Pakistan and the United States, supposed allies in the war in Afghanistan and against al Qaeda.

Panetta warned Pakistan on Thursday that the United States was running out of patience over its refusal to eliminate sanctuaries for insurgents, who attack US troops in Afghanistan.

Relations plunged to an all-time low in May 2011 when US Navy commandos killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in his compound in a Pakistani garrison town.

The Pakistanis were incensed not to have been briefed on the raid before it happened.
 

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