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Pakistani airspace being used for NATO supplies: Munter – The Express Tribune
ISLAMABAD: US Ambassador to Pakistan Cameron Munter has hinted that Nato supplies might have resumed through Pakistani airspace.
He was speaking to reporters at the Pakistan National Council of Arts.
When asked if it were true that despite the blockade of road routes for Nato supplies for forces stationed in Afghanistan, Pakistans airspace was being used to provide for them, Munter said, you are right.
The supply routes were blocked following outrage in Pakistan after the November 26 Salala checkpoint attack, in which 24 Pakistani soldiers were killed in Nato bombing. The US was also made to vacate Shamsi Airbase, which was being used for drone strikes in Afghanistan and allegedly for those carried out in Pakistan.
As I have commented before many times, what happened was tragic but unintentional and this is something that we all must work together to try to prevent. The way to work together is to make sure these kinds of tragedies do not take place, Munter said.
He said that the US was looking forward to a debate in the Pakistani parliament over conservation of Pak-US ties. We have waited because we think Pakistan has requested time to rethink about how our relationship should go ahead. We welcome those suggestions, the honesty and the spirit to take things forward.
ISLAMABAD: US Ambassador to Pakistan Cameron Munter has hinted that Nato supplies might have resumed through Pakistani airspace.
He was speaking to reporters at the Pakistan National Council of Arts.
When asked if it were true that despite the blockade of road routes for Nato supplies for forces stationed in Afghanistan, Pakistans airspace was being used to provide for them, Munter said, you are right.
The supply routes were blocked following outrage in Pakistan after the November 26 Salala checkpoint attack, in which 24 Pakistani soldiers were killed in Nato bombing. The US was also made to vacate Shamsi Airbase, which was being used for drone strikes in Afghanistan and allegedly for those carried out in Pakistan.
As I have commented before many times, what happened was tragic but unintentional and this is something that we all must work together to try to prevent. The way to work together is to make sure these kinds of tragedies do not take place, Munter said.
He said that the US was looking forward to a debate in the Pakistani parliament over conservation of Pak-US ties. We have waited because we think Pakistan has requested time to rethink about how our relationship should go ahead. We welcome those suggestions, the honesty and the spirit to take things forward.
