PAKISTAN and the United States appeared on the verge of clinching an agreement to reopen ground supply lines into Afghanistan, a US official said, as Islamabad confirmed its president will attend a summit of Nato leaders this weekend in Chicago.
PAKISTAN and the United States appeared on the verge of clinching an agreement to reopen ground supply lines into Afghanistan, a US official said, as Islamabad confirmed its president will attend a summit of Nato leaders this weekend in Chicago.
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Reopening the supply route would indicate a major thawing of Washington-Islamabad relations. Diplomatic tensions have fuelled speculation that Pakistan might be excluded from Nato talks on Afghanistan's future.
Pakistan closed the supply lines for the Afghan war after the Nato air strike in November that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers. The strike fanned national anger over everything from covert CIA drone attacks to last year's US incursion into Pakistani territory to kill al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
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