Yesterday’s public apology by US Ambassador Anne Patterson over last week’s NATO attack on Pakistani soldiers may have been, as many believe, a cynical attempt to get Pakistan to reopen the Khyber Pass to NATO traffic, but it has not as of yet borne fruit.
The border remained closed to NATO convoys again today, though throughout its weeklong closure officials have allowed commercial traffic through. Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry would not predict when the reopening to NATO traffic would come, saying only that the situation is being “evaluated.”
Three Pakistani soldiers were killed last week’s helicopter attack and three others were wounded. The Pentagon had as recently as Tuesday shrugged the attack off as “self defense” and insisted that no policy changes would be made with respect to the border.
But outrage in Pakistan over the attacks had not just led to the border’s closure, but to the destruction of over 100 fuel tankers by militant groups. Largely the groups were targeting tankers stranded on the route to Khyber, but yesterday they also attacked tankers en route to the much smaller Balochistan crossing, which remains open. Roughly 80 percent of all NATO war supplies pass through Pakistan.
I was actually surprised at the Pakistan officials putting up with Hilary Clinton talking down to them like they were her hired servants and demanding the Pakistan government raise taxes. Men in that country have a lot of pride and even the huge foreign aid that we bribe them with won't keep them from eventually standing up for themselves to US arrogance. I guess when NATO killed some of their border guards they'd had enough.
Your kidding right? Don't tell me you're seriously buying into the Pakistan's government playact. This whole NATO supplies blockade is just for show & to put on a pretend fake-face. Its only to fool the local population of Pakistan into thinking that their government actually has some courage & pride to stand up to their American masters. When in reality they don't have either.
These Pakistani politicians will sell their own mothers & fathers, willing, to be thrown into Guantanamo bay or other unknown torture prisons for American dollars & for America's happiness. As the Pakistani government & its agencies have done many times in the past. Such as in the case of Aafia Saddiqui. And many others they kidnapped & branded terrorist on innocent layman's forehead, whom they happily handed these so-called "terrorist" to the US for torture in return for a few hundred bucks.
These cowards & traitors have no dignity, no courage, no loyalties. They are available to the highest bidder, which in this case is America (for now). All America or NATO has to do is, put a few more million dollars in their puppets pockets, and you'll have the Khyber pass all open for Western traffic. Don't forget, a similar situation happened in the past, they blocked supplies for western forces in Afghanistan over a missile-strike on Pakistani Army troops, & after sometime the passing was all open, no question's asked. At the expensive of their homeland going up in flames of course.