Posted on 12/21/2008 9:37:19 PM PST by little jeremiah
A dispute over who should pay to protect Nato and US military supplies crossing Pakistan is hampering efforts to secure the main lifeline for foreign troops in Afghanistan.
Pakistan's Government, recently bailed out by the IMF, wants the shipping companies carrying the supplies to pay for the extra security on the main route from the port of Karachi via the Khyber Pass to Afghanistan.
Militants have staged several attacks on the route in the past month, torching 260 vehicles the week before last, and killing three people on the Khyber Pass yesterday.
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Don’t we have some of those HUGE SeaBee caterpillars and such that leveled the mountains of Southern California in a couple short years? I know Khyber Pass is nasty but maybe it’s time to level the whole darned thing and build them a lil ole concrete cat fish lake.
The present situation isn’t good for sure.
Forgot to ping you to this one, if you want it.
Now I remember; I didn’t ping you since it was the other side of Paki.
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