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India-Pakistan
Pakistan repeats call on US to apologize for bloodshed
2012-06-15
[Iran Press TV] Pakistain renews call on the United States to apologize for the US-led forces' killing of 24 Pak soldiers last year.

Speaking to news hounds in the Afghan capital Kabul on Thursday, Pak Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar said Islamabad will not consider reopening the border crossings used to transfer supplies to the US-led forces deployed in Afghanistan, Rooters reported.

From October 2001 to November 2011, Pak routes used to serve as the main passageways for the transfer of supplies to the NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions...
forces.

Islamabad closed the border crossings after the Pak soldiers were killed in the US-led aerial assaults on two checkpoints on the Afghan border on November 26.

Khar said the country will keep the crossings closed unless the US makes an unconditional apology for the attacks and reassures Pakistain that such incidents will never happen again.

She also denied reports that the closure of the supply routes are due to haggling over transportation fees with the US.
Posted by:Fred

#1  INDIAN DEFENCE FORUM > [News Tribe] US VIOLATES PAKISTAN COAST, USS ENTERPRISE DOCKED NEAR GAWADAR, BALOCHISTAN | US VIOLATES INTERNATIONAL LAWS, MOVES USS ENTERPRISE [CVN-65]INTO PAKISTANI WATERS NEAR BALOCHISTAN.

* RELATED PAKISTAN TODAY > US DEPLOYS ITS BIGGEST AIRCRAFT CARRIER NEAR GAWADAR | US MOVES USS ENTERPRISE INTO PAKISTANI WATERS.

HHHMMMMM, HMMMMMM, so besides Pakistan, the "Big E" is incidentally where IRAN also wants US CVNS + Amphibs, etc. to be???

* TOPIX > PAKISTAN DEMANDS UNCONDITIONAL APOLOGY FROM US BEFORE SUPPLY ROUTES ARE REOPENED.

* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > PAKISTAN NOT "GOUGING" US OVER AFGHAN SUPPLY ROUTES: KHAR | PAKISTAN NOT "GOUGING" OVER NATO SUPPLY ROUTES: KHAR.

* SAME > REHMAN: LACK OF US APOLOGY DELAYS OPENING OF SUPPLY ROUTES.

* SAME > [PressTV] PAKISTANI PRESIDENT [Zardari] TELLS US [CoDel] OF PAKISTANIS' ANGER [frustration, disgust] OVER DRONE STRIKES.

* SAME > ELEMENTS OTHER THAT APOLOGY KEEPS GLOCS CLOSED: PANETTA [to US Senate Sub-Committee]. US HAS ALREADY APOLOGIZED [expressed Regrets] FOR SALALA INCIDENT.

IIUC, Islamabad + Soldiers' families want US compensation = $$$.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2012-06-15 23:29  

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