NATO/US forces attacked and killed 28 Pakistani troops on the Afghan border. In retaliation Pakistan has cut off the supply routes to US/NATO forces in Afghanistan. This means the US will have to rely on airlifts through Central Asia and Russian airspace.
(Reuters) – NATO helicopters and fighter jets attacked two military outposts in northwest Pakistan near the Afghan border on Saturday, killing as many as 28 troops and plunging U.S.-Pakistan relations deeper into crisis.
Pakistan retaliated by shutting down vital NATO supply routes into Afghanistan, used for sending in nearly half of the alliance’s shipments by land.
The attack is the worst incident of its kind since Pakistan uneasily allied itself with Washington immediately following the September 11, 2001 attacks on U.S. targets.
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Hours after the raid, NATO supply trucks and fuel tankers bound for Afghanistan were stopped at Jamrud town in the Khyber tribal region near the city of Peshawar, officials said.
The border crossing at Chaman in Baluchistan was also closed, Frontier Corps officials said.
“We have halted the supplies and some 40 tankers and trucks have been returned from the check post in Jamrud,” Mutahir Zeb, a senior government official, told Reuters.
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The Afghan War is a waste. Our soldiers are fighting and dying to prop up the corrupt Islamic-Narco regime of Hamid Karzai. Afghan heroin is now cheap and has flooded US streets. This is what the war has accomplished. We have made Afghanistan safe for Heroin growers. It’s time to level the place and completely destroy the Afghan nation and society. The answer is a Carthaginian solution. After we destroy the place, we should leave.
Nation building has failed.
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