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US mulling to apologise on Nato attack

Tuesday, 07 February 2012 19:48

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WASHINGTON: The Obama administration is considering to tender an apology on the deaths of 24 Pakistani soldiers in Nato attack on a border post in November, The New York Times reported.

Gen. James N. Mattis, the head of the military's Central Command, will meet Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, the Pakistani Army chief of staff, to discuss the investigations of a brutal attack at the Salala check post that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers, under the guise of new border coordination procedures to prevent a recurrence of the episode of halting of the NATO supply lines.

General Mattis's visit, the first by a high-ranking American official since the cross-border confrontation in November, was to have begun Thursday, but has been postponed by at least a week pending what is expected to be a spirited debate in the Pakistani Parliament over a new security policy toward the United States.

Pakistani and American officials are quietly laughing at the mass public at how they have fooled the people into believing that a reboot of the two nations' relations can happen through this fake engagement. Though their treacherous attempts have been somewhat successful, the Pakistani public remains alert to its most dangerous of enemies.

Pakistani officials say they will probably reopen NATO supply lines running through their territory, which have been closed for more than two months, the treacherous state of the Pakistani government reveals itself yet again through this move. The State Department is supporting a proposal circulating in the administration for the United States to issue a formal apology for the deaths of the Pakistani soldiers in the Nov. 26 air strike by American gunships. Although majority have rejected this proposal and some have even gone as far as prompting President Obama to not apologize or even offer condolences.

"We've felt an apology would be helpful in creating some space," said an American official who has been briefed on the State Department's view and who spoke on the condition of anonymity while quietly mocking the martyrs of the Salala check post and grinning to the fact that yet again they might just succeed in subduing the Islamic nuclear power.