Pakistan has blocked all NATO traffic from travelling through the Khyber Pass for the indefinite future today, cutting off the primary source of supplies for troops in landlocked Afghanistan. The government insists civilian traffic will continue to flow through the border unaffected.
The move was retaliation for a pair of NATO attacks against the Kurram Agency, the first of which involved what local officials are calling “indiscriminate shelling” and the second of which was a direct attack on a Pakistani military post, which killed three soldiers and wounded three others.
The closure of the supply route could be just the first move, as Pakistani Senators have pressed for a total closure of all NATO supply routes through the country, and Pakistan’s military has threatened unspecified measures in retaliation for the killings.
The US shrugged off the killings, insisting they were in “self defense” and expressing “consolences” to the families of the slain troops. The US has also pressed Pakistan to reopen the supply route. But right now it seems tensions are getting worse, not better.
The attack also sparked a backlash from militants in Pakistan, who attacked and burned a number of NATO supply tankers in Shikapur District. The US is also expressing concern over the Pakistani military on the basis of an unrelated video showing Pakistani troops killing civilians.
This is late but not too late to get out from this bloody war of lies and killings of innocent Afghanis and Pakistanis.
What I hear in Berlin CIA and FBI thinks that Pakistan is a colony of america and in the real sense they demonstrate. We also junior officers are killing Pakistanis in tribal areas unwillingly as they know the north region has been destablised by Indian and ameircan intelligense services.
It will not harm any one except the poor americans and NATO has got enough money they can air lift the supplies will means extra bancrupcy to america.
This is the lesson of the history do more do more has some point htere after wi´ll be no cooperation.
I wish that this proxy so called war on terror ends and Pakistan and Afghanistanis could live in peace. Till the NATO is there will be no peace.
Lies are always lies truth of 9/11 will come out but the americans worse nation in the world even then to support there wrong doings.
ghouri,
On this site, we hear you. Its a horror. Trouble is, western media and government lie to their own people, too. Americans get fed non-stop lies and nonsense on TV. According to our US media, we have to stay in Afghanistan and our big worry is some woman running for the Senate in Delaware who used to dabble in witchcraft.
Since when is that "self defense" ? US troops are not in the US, they are invaders and occupiers
in a foreign country and they have NO right of self defense! They should be treated like to
invaders of the Roman empuire – anything is right to get rid of them.
Was the country USA ever attacked by another country that they would have a right for a
self defensive war? No, never, they only make agressive wars for profit
And hundred of wars!
Who was the last US president who was not involved in a war?
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