A special US envoy met Pakistani Government
and Army officers on April 26
in Islamabad in an effort to get the country to reopen American and NATO
supply routes to Afghanistan, reports Daily Times. Washington’s envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan Marc Grossman
said during a joint conference
with Foreign Secretary Jalil
Abbas Jilani that the US was
ready for talks on re-opening
the supply lines and clearing
outstanding payments to Pakistan
to meet the expenses of military
operations in its tribal areas
to fight Taliban and al Qaeda.
“We are ready to get to the
work. We want to work to reopen
the ground lines of communication.
We want to discuss several outstanding
claims for the Coalition Support
Fund,” Grossman said. He also
said he did not expect to get
an immediate commitment that
the routes would reopen but
that “the task now is to begin
a conversation about how to
move forward”. Grossman met
Army Chief General Ashfaq Parvez
Kayani and Foreign Affairs Ministry
officials to discuss the supply
routes. |
