Pakistan on Tuesday admitted that it had allowed NATO to use its airspace for supplies to Afghanistan, but said the permission was granted for food items only. “The permission has been given for food items only,” Defence Minister Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar told reporters at a PIA function on Tuesday. He said, “We have allowed them to transport food items by air to Afghanistan as they were perishable.
However, we have also told them not to bring more food supplies after allowing them to transport some by air,” he said. Earlier, US Ambassador Cameron Munter had stated that NATO had continued to fly supplies into Afghanistan despite the closure of the Pakistani border to NATO trucks and containers after the November 26 NATO airstrikes on two Pakistani border checkposts.
Pakistan only allowing NATO food supplies through air: Mukhtar
