Pakistan has reopened the trucking routes NATO relies on for getting weapons and other goods into Afghanistan. That has US generals and the Taliban smiling.



By Dan Murphy, Staff writer / July 31, 2012















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In this July 12 file photo, a man sits on a NATO supply truck entering Afghanistan from Pakistan at Torkham border crossing in east of Kabul, Afghanistan.



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This summer's fighting season, both the Taliban and US-led NATO forces have been grumbling. The bullets and other supplies both sides need to pursue the war in the style they've grown accustomed to have been more expensive to bring into the country because Pakistan had closed its border to NATO trucking. The US has had the better of it, with the ability to fund more expensive air drops and resupply through Central Asia. But both sides have been unhappy about the state of affairs.