Nato Supply Routes

• Pakistani drone protesters block NATO supply route

  Thousands of people protesting US drone strikes blocked a road in northwest Pakistan on Saturday used to truck NATO troop supplies and equipment in and out of Afghanistan.

• Pakistan reopens main NATO supply route after two weeks

  A Pakistani border official says a key crossing to Afghanistan in the country's northwest has been reopened for NATO supplies after being closed for nearly two weeks due to a militant attack.

• NATO trucks suspended for fifth day at Pakistan crossing

  Pakistani officials said on Monday that a ban on NATO trucks at the main border crossing into Afghanistan will last until the government promises to safeguard security. Officials closed the northwestern Torkham crossing, the quickest route to the Afghan capital Kabul from the port of Karachi, to NATO traffic on Thursday.

• Pakistan suspends NATO supply route over security

  Pakistan has temporarily stopped NATO supply trucks crossing its northwestern border into Afghanistan over security concerns due to fears of Islamist attacks, officials said on Thursday.

• US crafted Pakistan 'apology' to suit allies abroad, opponents at home

  In the end it was a meeting in a nondescript conference room in Chicago that finally set in motion the long-awaited US apology to Pakistan last week ending a seven-month impasse over NATO supply routes for the Afghan war.

• Islamists protest reopening of NATO supply line in Pakistan

  Thousands of hardline Islamists streamed toward Pakistan's capital in a massive convoy of vehicles Sunday to protest the government's decision to allow the U.S. and other NATO countries to resume shipping troop supplies through the country to Afghanistan. The demonstration, which started in the eastern city of Lahore, was organized by the Difah-e-...

• US drone strike kills 21 militants in Pakistan

  A US drone targeted a compound in the restive North Waziristan tribal region on Friday, killing 21 suspected militants in the first such attack since Pakistan reopened NATO supply routes to neighbouring Afghanistan.

• First NATO truck in seven months crosses Pakistan border

  The first truck carrying supplies to American and NATO troops in Afghanistan has crossed the Pakistani border after a seven-month long closure of the supply routes by Pakistan ended earlier this week.

• Taliban threatens to attack NATO vehicles after Pakistan opens supply routes

  The outlawed Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan has threatened to attack Afghanistan-bound NATO vehicles after Islamabad ended a seven-month blockade of supply routes following a US apology for a cross-border attack that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers.

• Pakistan reopens NATO supply routes after US apologises for drone strike

  Ending a bitter seven-month standoff, US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton apologised to Pakistan on Tuesday for the killing of 24 of its troops last fall and won in return the reopening of critical NATO supply lines into Afghanistan. The agreement could save the US hundreds of millions of dollars.

• Hillary Clinton apologises to Pakistan for NATO airstrike that killed 24 Pakistani troops

  The Obama administration says Pakistan is reopening supply lines into Afghanistan after the US issued an apology for the November killing of 24 Pakistani troops in a NATO airstrike.

• US, Pakistan expected to strike deal soon on Afghan supply routes

  The United States and Pakistan are expected to soon reach an agreement to reopen ground routes key for supplying NATO troops in Afghanistan, a Pakistani official said on Monday, in a move that could ease a seven-month crisis in the two countries' ties.

• NATO still hopes for Pakistan transit agreement

  NATO still hopes to reopen transport supply routes to Afghanistan through neighbouring Pakistan despite securing new transit deals with three Central Asian states, NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Wednesday.

• Pakistan seeks $2000 transit fee for each NATO tanker

  Pakistan has reportedly demanded $1800 to $2000 as the fee for every NATO container truck and tanker during negotiations with the US for reopening supply routes for foreign troops in Afghanistan.

• Pakistan seeks face-saving formula in NATO talks

  Pakistan is unlikely to re-open supply routes to NATO troops in Afghanistan unless the United States offers a politically acceptable formula in talks on ending a six-month standoff on the issue, a Pakistani official said on Thursday.