Pakistan’s Parliament Debates Allowing NATO To Resume Use Of Supply Routes

Pakistan’s Parliament is debating whether to allow NATO to once again use Pakistani supply routes into Afghanistan. Pakistan suspended NATO’s access in November after a border air strike resulted in the deaths of 24 Pakistani Soldiers. Washington has expressed regret for the strike, the facts of which remain in dispute, but will not issue a formal apology. A Pakistani parliamentary commission on Pakistani-U.S. relations has suggested that in order to resume use of supply routes, the United States should apologize for the soldiers deaths and end drone strikes in Pakistan. Meanwhile the Pakistani Taliban have issued a threat to the Pakistani government not to allow NATO to return to the supply routes.

Via Al Jazeera English