Chairman of Pakistan’s Parliamentary Committee on National Security, Milan Raza Rabbani announced on Thursday that the embargo on the NATO supply lines stayed in place as long as the relations between the two allies in the so-called war on terror remained fraught.
Pakistan, enraged by the US-led NATO attacks that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers in northwestern Pakistan on November 26, closed the border crossings used by the Western military alliance into landlocked Afghanistan.
The US military and NATO rely heavily on the Pakistan-based supply routes more so now that militant attacks are increasing in Afghanistan.
Other routes, largely passing through Russia and the Central Asian states, have proved to be too costly, both politically and economically.
