Nato Supply

• Pakistan reopens main NATO supply route after two weeks

  A Pakistani border official says a key crossing to Afghanistan in the country's northwest has been reopened for NATO supplies after being closed for nearly two weeks due to a militant attack.

• Pakistan, US sign NATO convoy deal

  Pakistan on Tuesday signed a deal with the United States governing arrangements for NATO convoys travelling to Afghanistan, seeking to draw a line under a seven-month border blockade.

• NATO trucks suspended for fifth day at Pakistan crossing

  Pakistani officials said on Monday that a ban on NATO trucks at the main border crossing into Afghanistan will last until the government promises to safeguard security. Officials closed the northwestern Torkham crossing, the quickest route to the Afghan capital Kabul from the port of Karachi, to NATO traffic on Thursday.

• Pakistan suspends NATO supply route over security

  Pakistan has temporarily stopped NATO supply trucks crossing its northwestern border into Afghanistan over security concerns due to fears of Islamist attacks, officials said on Thursday.

• Bomb destroys 22 NATO supply trucks: Afghan official

  A Taliban bomb attack has destroyed 22 fuel tankers carrying supplies for NATO forces in Afghanistan, local officials said on Wednesday. A pre-dawn explosion triggered a fire which engulfed the trucks, parked in northern Samangan province overnight.

• US crafted Pakistan 'apology' to suit allies abroad, opponents at home

  In the end it was a meeting in a nondescript conference room in Chicago that finally set in motion the long-awaited US apology to Pakistan last week ending a seven-month impasse over NATO supply routes for the Afghan war.

• Islamists protest reopening of NATO supply line in Pakistan

  Thousands of hardline Islamists streamed toward Pakistan's capital in a massive convoy of vehicles Sunday to protest the government's decision to allow the U.S. and other NATO countries to resume shipping troop supplies through the country to Afghanistan. The demonstration, which started in the eastern city of Lahore, was organized by the Difah-e-...

• US drone strike kills 21 militants in Pakistan

  A US drone targeted a compound in the restive North Waziristan tribal region on Friday, killing 21 suspected militants in the first such attack since Pakistan reopened NATO supply routes to neighbouring Afghanistan.

• Taliban threatens to attack NATO vehicles after Pakistan opens supply routes

  The outlawed Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan has threatened to attack Afghanistan-bound NATO vehicles after Islamabad ended a seven-month blockade of supply routes following a US apology for a cross-border attack that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers.

• Pakistan reopens NATO supply routes after US apologises for drone strike

  Ending a bitter seven-month standoff, US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton apologised to Pakistan on Tuesday for the killing of 24 of its troops last fall and won in return the reopening of critical NATO supply lines into Afghanistan. The agreement could save the US hundreds of millions of dollars.

• US, Pakistan expected to strike deal soon on Afghan supply routes

  The United States and Pakistan are expected to soon reach an agreement to reopen ground routes key for supplying NATO troops in Afghanistan, a Pakistani official said on Monday, in a move that could ease a seven-month crisis in the two countries' ties.

• NATO still hopes for Pakistan transit agreement

  NATO still hopes to reopen transport supply routes to Afghanistan through neighbouring Pakistan despite securing new transit deals with three Central Asian states, NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Wednesday.

• NATO strike: White House rules out apology to Pakistan, says time to move ahead

  The White House has ruled out an apology to Islamabad for November 26 incident in which 24 Pakistani soldiers were killed in a NATO cross border fire and said it is time that the two countries move ahead, two days after such a demand was made by Pakistan People's Party leader Bilawal Bhutto.

• Barack Obama snubs Asif Ali Zardari over NATO supply routes

  In an unmistakable snub, US President Barack Obama left Pakistan off a list of nations he thanked for help getting war supplies into Afghanistan.

• US not to pay USD 5,000 per truck to Pak: Panetta

  US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta has ruled out paying Pakistan USD 5,000 per truck carrying vital supplies across its territory for NATO troops in Afghanistan, citing financial challenges faced by America.