They meet in Islamabad military leaders of Pakistan, Afghanistan and ISAF

The top military leaders of Pakistan, Afghanistan and the NATO mission in Afghanistan met today in the Pakistani capital to try to reopen supply routes to the Allies as a central theme. The delegations were led by the Pakistani army chief, Ashfaq Pervez Kiyani, Afghan, Sher Mohammad Karimi, and the head of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), American John Allen. According to a note issued by the Pakistani army, the meeting focused on "border control measures and implementation of mechanisms to prevent incidents on both sides of the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan." This meeting marks an improvement of relations between NATO and Islamabad, which bottomed out after the death of 24 Pakistani soldiers because an Allied bombing raid by mistake in a post on the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan last November. The so-called tripartite commission between the two neighboring countries and ISAF meets regularly, but had not met since that border incident, which caused outrage in Pakistan and the closing off of supplies to Allied troops. According to official sources quoted by local daily Express Tribune, the possible reopening of roads and Pakistan to supply convoys ISAF has been discussed today and in a private meeting yesterday between Kiyani and Allen. The Pakistani media speak for days on the possible resumption of supplies to the Allies through Pakistan and expected to occur before the NATO summit that within one week will take place in Chicago with Afghanistan as a key issue. Last Friday, the secretary general of NATO, Anders Fogh Rasmussen said in Brussels that Pakistan was not invited to the summit and recalled the difficulties of the mission in Afghanistan for the Pakistani veto the passage of supplies.