Zardari to attend NATO summit on Afghanistan

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Authors: From Foreign Policy's AfPak Channel The Brief Better late than never: The spokesman for Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari said Tuesday that NATO had extended an invitation to Pakistan to attend this weekend's summit in Chicago, as officials from both the United States and Pakistan indicated that the two countries are close to finding an agreement on reopening the NATO ground supply routes to Afghanistan (NYT, AP, Reuters, AFP). Hours after NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen invited Zardari to the summit, the Pakistani Cabinet's Defense Committee gave the government the green light to lift the blockade on the shipment of NATO supplies through the country (ET, Dawn, DT). However, the reopening of the ground routes would come with a new fee that is expected to cost the United States another $1 million per day (McClatchy). The Pakistani and U.S. governments are not the only stakeholders in this likely development; many Pakistani traders made a living selling

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