Pakistan Supply Routes To Afghanistan. Source: US TRANSCOM. Credit: Alyson Hurt/NPR
Marcus Weisgerber. Defense One: Will Pakistan Close NATO’s Supply Routes into Afghanistan? Mattis Plays Down Possibility
‘I’m not concerned,’ the defense secretary tells reporters after the White House announced an intention to suspend military aid to Islamabad.
U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis played down the prospect that Pakistan might close NATO’s supply routes into Afghanistan after the Trump administration said it would suspend military aid to Islamabad.
Alliance forces rely on Pakistani roads to haul supplies to landlocked Afghanistan. Pakistan closed them once before, after a 2011 U.S. airstrike killed two dozen of its soldiers.
“No, I’m not concerned,” Mattis told reporters on Friday at the Pentagon when asked about the prospect of Pakistan shutting down what the military calls Ground Lines of Communication, or GLOCs.
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Update #1: Mattis: Pentagon still working with Pakistan on military supply lines to Afghanistan (The Hill)
Update #2: US military weighs supply options amid Pakistan spat (AFP)
WNU Editor: Both NATO/U.S. and Pakistan are dependent on each other. It is not in the interest for all parties to end this supply route.
3 comments:
Afghanistan is an exposed position.
They closed it before.
There is precedent.
Depending on how the crowd goes and people are always whipping the crowd up for something (Legit or not & in every country), this time a shutdown could be longer or permanent.
Those demonstration of Pakistan Taliban and other political parties could grow. The organizers want to sit at the head table.
"Afghanistan is an exposed position. "
It is. It should be abandoned, if you go by the numbers.
Still one has to keep the faith. There are good people in Afghanistan although there does not seem to be enough of them or enough of them willing to fight.
If you look at the Demographic stem and leaf diagram broken down by age and sex, you got to wonder how stupid Merkel is and how willing Afghan, Syrians and others are in securing their freedom from the likes of the "Taliblam" and "ISIST".
I like the new president of Afghanistan better than Karzai. If Karzai was still power and given how many Afghani soldiers desert, I'd say leave.
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