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Afghan supply routes face setbacks in Pakistan, Kyrgyzstan
U.S. efforts to improve supplies for its troops in Afghanistan just had a double setback after militants in northwest Pakistan severed the main supply route for western forces and Kyrgyzstan's president said the United States must close its military base there.
Militants blew up a bridge on the Khyber Pass, cutting the supply route to western forces in Afghanistan and underscoring the need for the United States to seek alternative supply lines. The U.S. military sends 75 percent of supplies for the Afghan war through Pakistan but has been looking at using other transit routes through Central Asia. Although Washington has been sketchy on the details of its plans, its Manas military airbase near the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek has so far provided important logistical support for its operations in Afghanistan. During a visit to Moscow, Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev announced the closure of the base, opened after the 9/11 attacks. Bakiyev made the announcement after securing a $2 billion loan and a further $150 million in aid from Russia.
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Russia should come forward to help US and its allies to settle the matter in this region. They are the ones who started it all in 1978 and it has come this far. Russia did suffer in Chechnya and Dagestan recently. These issues will erupt again. This needs to be put to bed. Countries like Kyrgystan have to be told either they are with us in the war on terror or they are against us. This is a crucial period in the war on terror. India should allow US to operate from the Kashmir under its control. That place is very close to Afghanistan as well. With US operating from inside Indian controlled Kashmir, India can let the American see for themselves on what exactly going on and all the claims of rapes, pillage, plunder by the Indian military that Pakistanis have been claiming can be checked by a different observer. In fact the US should set up its camps on both Indian and Pakistani sides of Kashmir. It will kill insurgency inside Kashmir and will help zero in on the Taliban from inside India as well as from Afghanistan. India is going to lose Kashmir otherwise.