"The closure of the Pakistani transit routes for NATO’s supplies for the Afghan war has lasted for 2 months. There is no end in view and everything depends on the ‘reset’ of US-Pakistan relations. Washington and Brussels initially put on a brave face insisting NATO had alternate means of dispatching supplies and that Pakistan was shooting at its feet. But the sophistry is wearing thin and reports are appearing that the NATO is feeling the pinch.
According to an AP report, the cost of ferrying NATO’s supplies may have shot up by 512 percent as a result of the closure of the Pakistani route. The monthly cost today works out to 115 million dollars as against 17 million dollars through the Pakistani transit routes."
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