Saturday, January 3, 2009

Pakistan has paved the way to temporarily supply the NATO coalition in Afghanistan.

Pakistani security forces on Friday to temporarily open a key supply route western coalition in Afghanistan, reports AFP. The route was shut down three days earlier, when the Pakistanis have started cleaning the region of militants.
Hayber - one part of the Pakistan Federal Tribal Areas - adjacent to the Afghan border areas, where militants are active Taliban and the terrorist group al-Qaeda. " The region is located Haybersky passage, by which the supply of U.S. troops, NATO allies and their food, fuel and other goods.
On Tuesday, after several attacks by militants on NATO convoys, Pakistanis in Haybere launched a large-scale military operation, using helicopter gunships, tanks and heavy artillery. In connection with this Haybersky pass was blocked, but on Friday it was moving temporarily - from 11 to 16 hours, local time - again. The next passage will open on Saturday.
As he said at a press conference the head of administration Haybera Tariq Hayat (Tariq Hayat), the military operation in the region continues. Hayat believes that the situation returned to normal within two days. In addition to attacks on lorries, NATO, the Pakistanis are trying to curb the increasing trend in Haybere kidnapping for ransom. The objectives of the security forces are the base and points of supply of fighters. According to Hayat, the troops will remain in Dzhamrude - one of three administrative parts Haybera - until the objectives of the operation will not be met.

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