http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-07-03/clinton-says-nato-supply-routes-through-pakistan-reopening-1-.html
Pakistan is reopening NATO supply lines to Afghanistan after a seven-month dispute, saying that U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton satisfied its demand to apologize for a clash that killed 24 Pakistani border troops.
Clinton said in a statement announcing the decision that she offered “deepest regrets” over the accidental killing of troops in the November incident during a conversation yesterday with Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar.
The military supply routes have been shut as Pakistani officials demanded a U.S. apology for the killings and the two nations negotiated. The closing forced the U.S. and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to send material and equipment from the north, through Central Asia, at an added cost that Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has estimated at about $100 million a month.
“Foreign Minister Khar and I acknowledged the mistakes that resulted in the loss of Pakistani military lives,” Clinton said yesterday. “We are sorry for the losses suffered by the Pakistani military. We are committed to working closely with Pakistan and Afghanistan to prevent this from ever happening again.”