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Afghanistan Foundation Urges Pakistan To Fully Open Border
Afghanistan Foundation Urges Pakistan To Fully Open Border
The Afghanistan Foundation is urging Pakistan to fully
re=open its border
with Afghanistan for the purpose of
the resupply of NATO/ISAF forces during
the upcoming
NATO Summit in Chicago. The Foundation is welcoming reports
that Pakistan has permitted the re-opening of its border
with Afghanistan
to allow a limited number of trucks and
containers to resupply the U.S.
Embassy in Kabul,
Afghanistan.
The Kabul and Washington, D.C.-based
Afghanistan Foundation is calling on
Pakistan, and its
military and Inter-Service Intelligence Agency (ISI), to
fully re-open the Afghanistan – Pakistan border to
allow trucks to resupply
NATO /ISAF forces in a
full-scale manner.
“We welcome recent reports today
that Pakistan’s ISI and military has
permitted a
limited number of trucks to resupply the U.S. Embassy in
Kabul,
Afghanistan,” said Philip Smith, Director of
the Afghanistan Foundation.
http://www.afghanistan-foundation.org
“We calling
on the government of Pakistan, and its military and
Inter-Service Intelligence Agency (ISI), to fully
re-open the Afghanistan –
Pakistan border to allow
trucks to resupply NATO /ISAF forces in a
full-scale
manner during the upcoming NATO summit in Chicago,” Mr.
Smith
stated.
Since November of 2011, the Afghanistan
Foundation has repeatedly expressed
its concern about
the reported killing of Pakistani military troops by
NATO/ISAF forces during border-area airstrikes, while at
the same time
urging that the Afghanistan-Pakistan
border be re-opened for NATO/ISAF
resupply trucks and
convoys.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1111/S00781/afghanistan-foundation-criticizes-pakistan-border-closure.htm
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1112/S00637/will-us-defense-secretary-visit-end-afghan-blockade.htm
The Afghanistan Foundation is a non-profit and
non-governmental
organization (NGO) focused on research,
education, policy analysis,
international security,
economic development, humanitarian affairs and
other
issues in Afghanistan-- and the regions of South Asia,
Central Asia
and the Middle East.
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