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alp227

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Mon Jun 11, 2012, 04:23 PM Jun 2012

US withdraws supply route negotiators from Pakistan

Source: BBC

US negotiators who have been trying to reach a deal with Pakistan over a supply route to Nato troops in Afghanistan have quit the talks.

"The decision was reached to bring the team home for a short period of time," Pentagon spokesman George Little said.

The negotiators have, so far, failed to reach a deal.

Pakistan shut a Nato supply route in November after a Nato air strike near the Afghan-Pakistani border which killed 24 Pakistani soldiers.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-18401465

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US withdraws supply route negotiators from Pakistan (Original Post) alp227 Jun 2012 OP
"Washington has stopped short of an official apology for the deaths of the Pakistani soldiers." Ash_F Jun 2012 #1

Ash_F

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1. "Washington has stopped short of an official apology for the deaths of the Pakistani soldiers."
Tue Jun 12, 2012, 06:38 AM
Jun 2012

Kill 24 of your allies soldiers; no big deal. What is wrong with our leadership?

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