Leon Panetta says that U.S will not be
held hostage by Pakistan
US Defense
Secretary Leon Panetta vowed Sunday not to let the United States be “gouged” by
Pakistan on the price it charges for overland deliveries of American military
supplies to Afghanistan. Pakistan closed the land route to
US supplies in November as punishment for a botched US air strike that mistakenly killed 24 Pakistani soldiers, but have been in negotiations to reopen the border crossing.
US supplies in November as punishment for a botched US air strike that mistakenly killed 24 Pakistani soldiers, but have been in negotiations to reopen the border crossing.
The supply
lines impasse is just one of a host of issues that have opened deep schisms in
relations between the two countries, supposed allies in the US battle against
extremists. Relations plunged to an all-time low after a US
raid by US special operations forces killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in a compound in a Pakistani garrison town on May 2, 2011.
raid by US special operations forces killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in a compound in a Pakistani garrison town on May 2, 2011.
The United
States has moved gingerly to make up with the Pakistanis, who were incensed
that they learned of the raid only after it had been carried out. But the issue
flared anew last week when a Pakistani court sentenced a doctor
who helped the United States gather DNA data used to track down bin Laden to 33 years in prison for helping the Americans.
who helped the United States gather DNA data used to track down bin Laden to 33 years in prison for helping the Americans.
“It is so
difficult to understand and it’s so disturbing that they would sentence this
doctor to 33 years for helping in the search for the most notorious terrorist
in our times,” Panetta said. “What they have done here,” he added,
“does not help in the effort to try to re-establish a relationship between the United States and Pakistan.”
“does not help in the effort to try to re-establish a relationship between the United States and Pakistan.”
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