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Pakistani cabinet members to discuss NATO supply lines

Authors: From Foreign Policy's AfPak Channel The Brief Editor's note: The AfPak Channel will be celebrating the 4th of July tomorrow and will resume regular briefs on Thursday, July 5. Nth time's the charm? Pakistan's Defense Committee of the Cabinet (DCC) is expected to meet Tuesday to discuss the reopening of NATO supply lines, and top American and Pakistani officials expressed cautious optimism on Monday that the blockade of the routes is almost over (AP, WSJ, NYT, Dawn, ET, Reuters, The News). However, previous such hopes have not been borne out in meetings of Pakistani government officials, and the routes have been blocked for seven months now. Afghanistan on Monday accused Pakistani troops of launching rocket attacks across the border into Afghan territory, and threatened to report the incident to the United Nations Security Council (Reuters). The spokesman for Afghanistan's National Directorate of Security (NDS) Shafiqullah Taheri, said that Afghanistan has "enough evidence" to show that rockets used in hundreds of attacks on Kunar Province belong to the Pakistani military. Meanwhile, Pakistan accused Afghan National

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