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Sunday, 26 May 2013 10:18 am
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Pakistan’s help critical in US’s efforts to stabilise Afghanistan: report
NEW YORK - A leading American newspaper on Friday welcomed the ending of a seven-month blockade on Afghanistan-bound NATO supply routes, as it underscored the importance of Pakistan’s help to the US in stabilising Afghanistan. “It (the reopening of the routes) took way too long, but the compromise agreement is the best news in months,” The New York Times said in an editorial, ‘Detente on Supply Routes’. “It gives both sides a chance to halt a further slide in their troubled, mutually dependent relationship”. “Both countries needed a deal and got something for it,” the Times said, referring to accord under which the US finally apologised for the American airstrikes that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers at Salala last November and Pakistan responded by reopening the supply routes. The editorial noted that the Obama administration’s refusal to offer an apology and its use of the longer ground and air routes through Russia cost Washington some $100 million more a month. “Pakistan has paid a price for the closure,” the Times said.
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