Supply routes to Afghanistan

[davidbfpo]

Following this BBC report: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7769758.stm

I thought a thread on this subject appropriate.

The reliance upon the use of Karachi port and private hauliers (trucks) to take supplies into Afghanistan, mainly via the Khyber Pass, has appeared in other threads before. One citation was that 90% of all supplies came this way; I suspect some European NATO partners use another route, which I suspect is via Iran.

Reliance = vulnerabilituy and without Pakistani agreement I fail to see how our campaign in Afghanistan can continue.

I am aware that attacks have happened before and that the Pakistani authorities have twice recently temporarily closed the Khyber Pass.

SWJ reactions?