Islamabad, Dec 10 (ANI): As the relationship between the US and Pakistan continues to be in a 'strained,' the Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Martin Dempsey has said the NATO attack of November 26, which killed 24 Pakistani soldiers says much about the current state of the relationship.
General Dempsey said it was regrettable that Pakistan's military thought the air strikes on border posts in the Mohmand Agency was intentional.
"They believe we did this intentionally, in some way or the other, to discredit them or to goad them into further action," The Express Tribune quoted him, as saying.
He said it was incomprehensible for him that Pakistan believed that given the US efforts to build the relationship over time in the first place.
"If you think we did, I have to ask, what in the world would we hope to gain from doing this. As I sit here today, I don't know what happened in the Nato airstrikes," General Dempsey added.
Dempsey said the US could adjust the supply routes for NATO, but added it would be more expensive.
"The real problem for me is not the cost ...what's troubling me is that Pakistan would close the routes and what it says about the relationship," he said.
Recalling that Army chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani and him were batch mates at Fort Leavenworth, he said that he had spoken to him after the NATO air strikes, and other US officials had also been in touch with their Pakistani counterparts. (ANI)
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