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POPSPakistan Blocks NATO Supply Route After Lethal Air Strike; 0bama Hits The Links
Pakistan swiftly sealed its border with Afghanistan to NATO supplies – holding up convoys at the Torkham and Chaman crossings – the main overland US supply line into landlocked Afghanistan from the Arabian Sea port of Karachi. “We have stopped NATO supplies after receiving orders from the federal government,” said Mutahir Hussain, a senior local administration official in the tribal district of Khyber. The governor of Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Masood Kausar, said NATO helicopter fire killed 26 soldiers and wounded 14 others. “We salute our martyrs,” he told reporters in Islamabad. Pakistani officials at the southwestern crossing in Chaman said NATO convoys were also being prevented from crossing. General John Allen, the US commander of NATO’s International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), said: “This incident has my highest personal attention and my commitment to thoroughly investigate it to determine the facts.”
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