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Saturday, May 12, 2012
Cabinet to mull reopening NATO supplies next weekISLAMABAD: Pakistani leaders will meet next week to discuss ending a nearly six-month blockade on NATO supplies into Afghanistan, officials said Friday. Tuesday’s meeting will also debate how and whether to repair relations with the United States in time to attend a key NATO summit later this month. Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani is understood to have confirmed the date for the meeting of the defence committee of the cabinet from London, where he is on an official visit to Britain, the second-largest contributor to the NATO mission in Afghanistan. Pakistan shut its Afghan border crossings to NATO supplies after US air strikes killed 24 Pakistani soldiers on November 26, provoking a major crisis in Pakistani-US relations still reeling from the raid that killed Osama bin Laden the previous May. afp
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