Pakistan lifted its blockade after US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
apologised for the air raid deaths, but a row over security guarantees and
compensation have delayed a resumption of normal traffic.
Relations have been strained for more than a year, a period that included the
covert US raid to kill Osama bin Laden at his secret Pakistani hideaway.
It comes just a day before the director general of Pakistan’s ISI spy agency,
Lieutenant General Zaheer ul-Islam, begins a three-day visit to Washington
for talks with the head of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Officials are briefing that his visit is another sign of warming relations.
“If the DG ISI is in Washington then you know things are moving in the
right direction,” said a senior Pakistani government official.
So far, however, only a handful of supply trucks have crossed into Afghanistan.
The Torkham border crossing, at the heart of the Kyhber Pass, was closed to
Nato traffic last Thursday because of security concerns.
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