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| India-Pakistan |
| NATO supplies blocked for third day |
| 2010-10-03 |
| [Pak Daily Times] Officials of the Pakistain Army and NATO forces launched a joint investigation into the border incursions that killed three Pak soldiers on Thursday, as blockade of NATO supplies from Pakistain into Afghanistan continued on Saturday for a third day. According to a report, the investigations, to be led by officials of the Pakistain Army, would also include US army officials. The investigating team would visit Afghanistan to carry out an inquiry and hold talks regarding the attacks, the report added. Stern action would be taken against those involved in the cross border attack. The three Pak troops were killed in an early morning raid on Thursday when NATO choppers fired at a Pak military post 200 metres inside the border in the Kurram Agency, home of an intricately interconnected web of poverty, ignorance, and religious fanaticism. Pakistain halted the convoys on Thursday as a reaction to the deaths of the three soldiers. "The situation is the same. The border is blocked for NATO supplies," an official at Torkham, the main border crossing in Pakistain's Khyber district, said. A security bigshot in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar also confirmed that the convoys had been suspended for third day but said negotiations to solve the problem had been underway. "Long queues of trucks and oil tankers are waiting along Torkham and in the adjacent areas for the reopening," the official at Torkham said. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Pakistan making it clear that increased pressure will result in a cutoff of supplies in Afghanistan. |
| Posted by: gromky 2010-10-03 14:36 |
| #1 Target Gul and Khan |
| Posted by: Water Modem 2010-10-03 03:48 |