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India-Pakistan
Nato supplies to reopen at one million dollars a day, says report
2012-05-17
[Dawn] The United States is expected to pay Pakistain close to one million dollars a day, once the transportation of supplies to NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and organization....
forces in Afghanistan is reopened, a report said on Wednesday.

The two allies in the war on terror are close to signing an agreement on the resumption of supplies after a six-month period of impasse. According to a Christian Science Monitor report, the US will pay Pakistain $1,500 to $1,800 for each truck that transports supplies to its troops across the border.

The CSM report says "NATO traffic in and out of Afghanistan through Pakistain is anticipated to be as many as 600 trucks a day between now and the end of next year."

The report sources the information to unnamed "officials familiar with negotiations."

"Officials in Washington said they didn't know how much of the new cost the United States would bear. As the United States contributes more than two-thirds of the 130,000-strong international force, which operates under the command of NATO, it's expected that Washington will pay most of the new fee," the report says.

Pakistain put a stop to the supplies late last year, after 24 Pak soldiers were killed in an attack on a check-post by NATO forces. The two countries have been in talks over the improvement of ties but have been unsuccessful.

On Tuesday, however, in a meeting of Pakistain's cabinet ministers, it was agreed to reopen the supplies.
Posted by:Fred

#6  Ah, this tradition of taxing trade routes goes back to Marco Polo, its really the only way Mohamland has earned an income other than oil and pillage.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2012-05-17 17:34  

#5  Treat it like what it is - extortion. Put trackers in the cash. Send a greeting when it stops moving.
Posted by: mojo   2012-05-17 14:10  

#4  This is nothing but tribute paid to a bunch of liars and thieves. We need to rethink this way of coping and how it affects the big picture of the war. This war has been going on for over 10 years. How much longer will it go without any decisive victory?
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2012-05-17 13:31  

#3  I suspect we will soon see a corresponding spike in Taliban funding for weapons and explosives. The 24 Pak soldiers that we killed died as a result of their firing on US helicopters.
Posted by: Besoeker   2012-05-17 05:22  

#2  Lets record the fact for the time when some stupid bastard American patriot expresses its his/hers displeasure with US aid to Israel.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2012-05-17 03:46  

#1  Fuck'it. Looks like something out of the "Soprano's"
Posted by: texhooey   2012-05-17 00:13  

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