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ISLAMABAD: US assistant defence secretary Peter Lavoy has arrived in Islamabad in a fresh attempt to bring to an end a six-month blockade on Nato supplies crossing into Afghanistan, officials said Saturday.

Lavoy’s visit comes days after US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta warned Pakistan that the United States was running out of patience over Islamabad’s alleged refusal to do more to eliminate safe havens for insurgents.

“The US assistant defence secretary arrived here Friday to meet with a broad spectrum of people,” acting US embassy spokesman Robert Raines told AFP.

“He will be discussing bilateral issues with the officials,” he said without elaborating on the agenda for the two-day visit.

A Pakistani government official told AFP ahead of the trip that “talks will focus on re-opening the Nato supply route, ways to promote border coordination and settle the issue of the Coalition Support Fund (CSF)”.

Pakistan-US relations hit a new low six months ago when US air strikes killed 24 Pakistani soldiers along the Afghan border. Islamabad responded by imposing a blockade on Nato supplies crossing overland into Afghanistan.

Analysts believe there is little chance of a breakthrough during Lavoy’s trip.

“He will try and persuade Pakistan to re-open the route but it seems Pakistan wants to play tough at this stage,” analyst Hasan Askari told AFP.

“I am not very hopeful that the US and Pakistan will agree to re-open the route in the near future despite the fact that Washington wants a middle way solution to the issue.”

Askari said Panetta’s strong remarks, which came after talks with Afghan Defence Minister Abdul Rahim Wardak on Thursday, were designed to put pressure on Pakistan.

Panetta singled out the Haqqani network, a Taliban and al Qaeda-linked faction that is said to have bases in Pakistan’s tribal district of North Waziristan and which has been blamed for some of the deadliest attacks of the 10-year war in Afghanistan.

Pakistan sits on the frontline of the US-led war on al Qaeda and since July 2007 has been gripped by a local Taliban-led insurgency, concentrated largely in the northwest.
 
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Lavoy’s visit comes days after US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta warned Pakistan that the United States was running out of patience over Islamabad’s alleged refusal to do more to eliminate safe havens for insurgents.
Not a good way to recommend your suit. I'd like to ask US what they're planning to do. A third war?
 
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Can they send Panetta to Islamabad?

He likes talking a lot about Pakistan sitting in other countries, please send him there so there can be a discussion face to face. :triniti: :lol:
 
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He will go back empty handed , on one side americans have a barking dog like Leon Panetta who is making threats against Pakistan and on other side they want us to open the supply routes.

amreki sataya gai hain , they stand defeated and they should also know that releasing wind after injesting indian curry is not going to magically turn their defeat into victory
 
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He will go back empty handed , on one side americans have a barking dog like Leon Panetta who is making threats against Pakistan and on other side they want us to open the supply routes.

amreki sataya gai hain , they stand defeated and they should also know that releasing wind after injesting indian curry is not going to magically turn their defeat into victory
hahaahhaahaahhah
 
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usa is doing that cz we are letting them do that we cant take a stand our poltcns are worst guys of this whole nation army is the only 1 which is talking stand and instead of helping out army our media is blaming army we need a very big change in every deportmnt of pakistan else after some time their will nothing pakistan is standing cz of three reasons 1 population 2 money coming from pakistni forgnrs and 3rd army
 
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Send Obama ( chaiye wala ) to beg us for it than we will look into it

and take with ur wife too lol

 
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