U.S. pays high price for Pakistan route cut-off: admiral

Moving supplies to NATO troops in Afghanistan via Central Asia costs three times as much as routes through Pakistan, which Islamabad shut seven months ago in anger, a senior U.S. officer said Wednesday.

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