US pulls NATO supply route negotiators out of Pakistan

[FarCenter]

The United States has withdrawn negotiators from Pakistan after talks failed to produce an agreement on reopening vital NATO supply routes into Afghanistan, the Pentagon said Monday.

"The decision was reached to bring the team home for a short period of time," Pentagon spokesman George Little told reporters.

The team of negotiators had been in Pakistan for about six weeks, he said, as US officials had believed they were close to a deal with Islamabad to lift the blockade on NATO convoys.

But no breakthrough was imminent and there was no scheduled date for a resumption of the negotiations, Little said.

http://www.france24.com/en/20120611-us-pulls-nato-supply-route-negotiators-out-pakistan

[HooptieWagon]

1. The US recently reached agreements with other 'stans for supply routes.

Looks like the US has called Pakistans bluff.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

2. Hopefully, on the way, they'll pick up the troops and keep going until they reach Iowa.