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Titolo: U.S., Pakistan reach deal to reopen Afghan supply routes

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U.S., Pakistan reach deal to reopen Afghan supply routes
 
By Andrew Quinn and Qasim Nauman
 
WASHINGTON/ISLAMABAD | Tue Jul 3, 2012 5:41pm EDT
 
WASHINGTON/ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan and the United States reached 
a deal on Tuesday to reopen land routes that NATO uses to supply troops 
in Afghanistan, ending a seven-month crisis that damaged ties between 
the two countries and complicated the U.S.-led Afghan war effort.
 
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in a telephone call with 
Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar, apologized for a November 
NATO air strike that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers last November and 
prompted an infuriated Islamabad to slam the supply routes closed.
 
"We are sorry for the losses suffered by the Pakistani military. We are 
committed to working closely with Pakistan and Afghanistan to prevent 
this from ever happening again," Clinton said in a statement following 
the conversation.
 
Khar, in turn, informed Clinton that Pakistan would reopen the supply 
routes and, in a major concession to the United States, would not follow 
through on threats to dramatically hike the transit fees.
 
The deal, which came after several previous attempts at negotiation had 
failed amid a dispute over a U.S. apology, opened the prospect of 
broader improvement in U.S.-Pakistan ties.
 
But even with this hurdle down, others remain. They include Pakistan's 
opposition to U.S. drone strikes on its territory, and Washington's 
allegations that Islamabad condones, or even assists, anti-American 
militants.
 
In her statement, Clinton said the supply lines agreement "is a tangible 
demonstration of Pakistan's support for a secure, peaceful, and 
prosperous Afghanistan and our shared objectives in the region." She 
added that the deal would allow the United States and its NATO partners 
to conduct their planned military drawdown from Afghanistan at a much 
lower cost.
 
U.S. officials said the United States was spending $100 million more a 
month to send supplies across a long alternate route overland across 
Central Asia and into Afghanistan.
 
PAKISTANI TALIBAN THREATENS CONVOYS
 
The Pakistani Taliban militant group immediately threatened to attack 
trucks that resume carrying supplies into Afghanistan, where most of the 
128,000 NATO soldiers are due to withdraw by the end of 2014.
 
"We will attack NATO supplies all over Pakistan. We will not allow 
anyone to use Pakistani soil to transport supplies that will be used 
against the Afghan people," the group's spokesman told Reuters by 
telephone from an undisclosed location.
 
U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, who said last month that Washington 
was losing patience with Pakistan because of the safe havens it offers 
to insurgents in neighboring Afghanistan, welcomed the news that the 
supply routes would reopen.
 
In an interview with Reuters, Panetta all but ruled out an apology to 
Pakistan over the NATO air strike.
 
Pakistan's Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf told senior government 
leaders on Tuesday that continued closure of the routes was harming 
Islamabad's relationship with Washington. Pakistan's Ambassador to the 
United States Sherry Rehman said the supply route deal could help to 
spur more cooperation between the two uneasy partners.
 
NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen welcomed the announcement, 
saying it highlighted the important role Pakistan has in supporting a 
stable future for Afghanistan.
 
U.S.-Pakistan ties turned markedly worse after the U.S. raid that killed 
al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden on Pakistani territory last year. 
Relations have been further poisoned by the U.S. drone strikes to target 
suspected militants and Washington's charge that Islamabad turns a blind 
eye to Haqqani network militants operating from within its borders.
 
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, who is among a growing number of U.S. 
lawmakers who have voiced doubts about the Pakistan alliance, welcomed 
Tuesday's announcement, but said more needed to be done to put the 
relationship on the right footing.
 
"If the Pakistani military intelligence services would engage in 
aggressive efforts to combat terrorism in coordination with coalition 
forces, it would tremendously enhance our successes in Afghanistan," he 
said in a statement.
 
"THREE LITTLE WORDS"
 
Clinton's careful statement was not the full-throated apology that 
Pakistan demanded for the deadly November attack, but went further than 
Washington had before in expressing regret for an incident that NATO 
described as an unfortunate accident.
 
"Foreign Minister Khar and I acknowledged the mistakes that resulted in 
the loss of Pakistani military lives," Clinton said, adding that she had 
reiterated U.S. regrets for the deaths of the soldiers and offered 
condolences to their families.
 
The U.S. administration, seeking to shield President Barack Obama from 
Republican criticism months before November's presidential election, had 
resisted an outright apology and political analysts said the moderate 
expression of regret came following an expensive delay.
 
"Three little words - 'We are sorry.' If they'd been delivered seven 
months ago, they might have saved hundreds of millions of dollars," said 
Jonah Blank, a former aide to Senator John Kerry, who is now at the Rand 
Corporation.
 
With a deal reached, both sides were set to benefit.
 
The agreement appeared to include a commitment by the United States to 
initially pay Pakistan $1.8 billion in military aid arrears.
 
But Washington would only have to provide $250 in handling fees for each 
shipment of NATO supplies going into Afghanistan, the same amount paid 
on those shipments before November. In recent months, Pakistani 
officials had demanded fee hikes that some suggested could have amounted 
to a twenty-fold increase, at about $5,000 per shipment.
 
Payment of aid arrears could be a windfall for Pakistan's unpopular 
government, which is under pressure to deal with a struggling economy, 
chronic power cuts and inflation in the lead-up to parliamentary 
elections expected early next year.
 
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 il Pakistan.
 
pensi che dopo 30 anni di guerre in cui hanno lasciato
sistematicamente come eredità uno scannamento generale non sia questo
il loro scopo?

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Francamente non so che dire.  L'esplosione del Pakistan, paese nucleare 
peraltro, avrebbe effetti dirompenti sul fragile equilibrio afgano e 
sull'India, con risultati imprevedibili, anche a breve termine, 
sull'intera Asia e sul resto del mondo.
 
Non so, da tempo percepisco segnali molto inquietanti e difficilmente 
razionalizzabili: dalle nuove basi americane in Australia; alla 
destabilizzazione della Libia; a quella della Siria; al nuovo impegno 
nello scudo spaziale che stressa i rapporti con la Russia; alla 
compromettente prova di fedeltà estrema richiesta agli alleati europei; 
all'attacco speculativo contro l'Euro e contro l'Europa stessa; alla 
demenziale campagna elettorale USA; alla crisi economica degli Stati 
Uniti, che sembra sia volontariamente posta fuori da ogni controllo.
Sullo sfondo un capitalismo trionfante che ha raggiunto il suo limite e 
un pianeta che sembra voler reagire con la febbre alla malattia indotta 
dal parassita umano.
 
Il clima che si respira sembra da ultimi giorni di Pompei: la follia 
domina le scelte degli umani, e non riesco a scorgere del metodo in essa.
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 sull'intera Asia
 
cioè la situazione migliore possibile per un paese che ormai primeggia
esclusivamente per l'esercito,, e quindi ha il bisogno vitale per la
sua sopravvivenza di tenere sotto tiro le prossime potenze economiche
mondiali. SOlo nel caos assoluto vince chi è più armato, in un mondo
in pace chi produce solo armi finisce schiacciato dalla sua incapacità
di produrre altro...

 il Pakistan.
 
rotfl!
 
c'e` ancora qualcosa che non e` esploso, da decenni, in pakistan?

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Le testate nucleari. 
 
 

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Sun Tzu afferma che vince la guerra chi non la fa.
 
Abbiamo innumerevoli esempi storici che lo confermano.
La guerra e' l'ultima opzione a cui bisogna essere sempre pronti.
 
Concordo con Persio, gli USA non sanno cosa stan facendo, cercano di 
consolidare un'impero che han rubato ai britt, ma sono dannatamente cose del 
passato, pirateria internazionale, possono implodere da un giorno all'altro.
 
 
 
 

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In generale è vero quello che dici, tuttavia la grave crisi economica 
indotta negli USA dalle due guerre contemporanee in Afganistan e Iraq 
hanno dimostrato che ci sono dei limiti al potere delle armi: limiti 
economici, demografici, di capacità produttiva, di tenuta sociale e 
politica.
 
La maggioranza dei cittadini americani lo ha compreso e, eleggendo 
Obama, ha tentato di far cambiare strada al loro paese, ma il tentativo 
è durato poco.  Perché chi sembra non averlo compreso è l'oligarchia 
capitalista, che continua a ragionare come tu dicevi.  Purtroppo il suo 
potere è più forte del potere democratico.
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 Abbiamo innumerevoli esempi storici che lo confermano.
 
quoto.
 

 hanno dimostrato che ci sono dei limiti al potere delle armi:
 
crisi vuol dire tutto e niente. Crisi di chi? Dei lavoratori
dipendenti yankee? Sicuramente. Dei miliardari yankee? Manco per un
cazzo, visto che i profitti sono ai massimi storici. E finchè va bene
a loro, la crisi non esiste. Se i lavoratori USA non hanno capito fino
ad adesso che ai miliardari del loro benessere frega cazzi, se
immiserendoli comunque riescono a far soldi, si sveglino...

 Pakistan.
 
suvvia, riprenditi da questo duro colpo... :-))