Panetta asks Kayani to help resume NATO supplies

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US Secretary of Defence Leon Panetta made a phone call to Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani on Tuesday and sought his ‘good offices’ for the resumption of NATO supplies to Afghanistan through Pakistan, as the top NATO commander in Afghanistan Marine General John Allen revealed for the first time that he spoke to General Kayani on the phone on Monday – their first conversation since the November 26 NATO air strikes – and said he was seeing some signs of a possible lifting of Pakistan’s communications blackout imposed on the US-led coalition after the NATO attack.
Panetta, who was on an unannounced visit to Afghanistan to discuss the latest situation there with Afghan authorities, telephoned the army chief a day after General Allen. Panetta, who said in Kabul that it was important to reach out to Pakistan if the United States wanted to dismantle Afghan militant havens, told General Kayani that his country wanted normalisation of ties with Islamabad as it was vital to win the ongoing war on terror.
“He made a request for the resumption of NATO supplies suspended by Pakistan in the wake of last month’s NATO air strike and asked General Kayani to use his ‘good offices’ for the purpose,” said an official here, requesting anonymity. Meanwhile, General Allen said that in his conversation with General Kayani, they both expressed a commitment to work through the incident and try to restore coordination between their forces along the border. “I do have a sense of progress,” Allen said, describing the phone call as businesslike and cordial. “The conversation was clearly about attempting to resolve the issue… around the border incident, in the sense that, let’s restore border coordination so that we can move on,” he added. He said he believed Pakistan would soon send its liaison officers, who were pulled after the November 26 incident, back to the border coordination centres and/or NATO headquarters in Kabul, the private TV channel reported. Allen said the two did not discuss when Pakistan would reopen its border crossings to NATO convoys transporting supplies for troops in Afghanistan.

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  2. Kayani remains the Kingmaker in Pakistan. No surprises here. Must be really odd for the rest of the world to contemplate the prospect of a foreign govt approaching the military leadership of a democratic nation to "get things done."

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