15.12.2011, 22:09
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Schneemann.
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KABUL — The allied commander in Afghanistan reported modest “progress” Tuesday in efforts to repair military relations with Pakistan, although he said he had received no indications that Islamabad would reopen crucial supply routes anytime soon.
Marine Gen. John R. Allen, commander of U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan, said he spoke by telephone Monday with Gen. Ashfaq Kayani, the Pakistani army chief, for the first time since Nov. 26, when a U.S. airstrike killed two dozen Pakistani soldiers in a cross-border attack. [...]
“There is a cost,” Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Friday at a seminar in Washington. “We can adjust, and we can get it done. It’ll be more expensive. It’ll be a bit time-consuming, but we have the time to do it on the available supplies in Afghanistan.”
Dempsey, however, was pessimistic about the state of relations with Pakistan, which have whipsawed over the past decade but nose-dived after the U.S. raid that killed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in a Pakistani garrison town in May.
Calling ties with Pakistan “a mess,” Dempsey said he was less worried about the border closures and specific flare-ups with the Pakistanis than about the overall state of relations between Washington and Islamabad.
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