Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Are U.S. - Pakistan Relations Improving?



Pakistan: Time To 'Move On' And Improve Relations With US -- The Telegraph

Pakistan said it was time to "move on" and repair ties with the United States and Nato, the strongest sign yet that it may reopen supply routes into Afghanistan closed for nearly six months.

Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar made the remarks a day before Pakistani leaders are to discuss ending the blockade, and thereby cave in to a key demand from the West in time to attend a Nato summit in Chicago next week.

Islamabad shut its Afghan border to NATO supplies after US air strikes killed 24 soldiers on November 26, provoking a major crisis in Pakistani-US relations on top of the outcry from the raid that killed Osama bin Laden the previous May.

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More News On The U.S. And Pakistan Resuming Relations And (Maybe) Opening The Supply Lines

NATO invites Pakistani leader to coming summit
-- L.A. Times
NATO invites Pakistan to Chicago summit -- Reuters
NATO invites Pakistani president to summit after FM suggests unblocking Afghan supply routes -- Washington Post/AP
Pakistan 'to move on' over NATO supply lines -- AFP
Pakistan poised to resume NATO supply lines to Afghanistan -- New York Daily News
Pakistan Signals NATO Supply Routes Could Be Reopened -- Voice of America
War supplies collecting dust near Pakistan border -- CNN
Pressure to re-open key border for Afghan war supplies -- CNN
US and Pakistan make up. Will supply route to Afghanistan reopen? -- Christian Science Monitor

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