9-Feb-2012 - US Sending Head of Central Command to Repair Pakistan Ties

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The head of the American military’s Central Command is expected to visit Pakistan this month to discuss the investigations into an exchange of fire along the Afghan border in November that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers and in effect damaged relations between the two countries.In Tuesday’s issue of The Times, custom nfl jerseys Eric Schmitt and Declan Walsh report that the visit by Gen. James N. Mattis will be the first by a high-ranking American official since the incident, and will follow a debate in Pakistan’s Parliament about a new security policy toward the United States.They cheap nba jerseys write:Pakistani and American officials are quietly optimistic that both events will trigger a chain of public engagement and private negotiations that will reboot the two nations' frayed strategic relationship, although along more narrowly defined lines than before.Pakistani officials say they will probably reopen NATO supply lines running through their territory, which have been closed for more than two months. The State Department is supporting a proposal circulating in football jerseys the administration for the United States to issue a formal apology for the deaths of the Pakistani soldiers in the Nov. 26 airstrike by American gunships.Read the full article.

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