Taliban releases video showing 17 beheaded Pakistani soldiers

Of course, the United States and NATO have made identical
demands of Pakistan, where insurgents from the Afghan Taliban have used Pakistan
as a safe haven for attacks against NATO and Afghan troops.

{mosads}Last week 18 people were
killed at a hotel outside of Kabul, which Allen said was an attack by the
Haqqani network, which is based in Pakistan.

“This attack bears the signature of the Haqqani network,
which continues to target and kill innocent Afghans and blatantly violate
Afghan sovereignty from the safety of Pakistan,” Allen said in a statement.

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has also been critical of
Pakistan for not doing more to stop terrorists from operating on Pakistani
soil, and he said in a speech earlier this month that the United States was “reaching
the limits of our patience” with Pakistan.

The border-control issues are just one of many sources contributing
to high tensions in U.S.-Pakistan relations right now.

Pakistan shut down NATO supply routes after NATO troops accidentally
killed 24 Pakistani soldiers on the border last year. Negotiations between the
two sides have not yielded an agreement to re-open the supply lines, in part
because the United States has said it won’t apologize for the incident.

Even before the border attack, Pakistan was already enraged
with the United States for violating its sovereignty in the raid that killed
Osama bin Laden. U.S. officials, meanwhile, openly accused Pakistan of knowing
where bin Laden had been hiding.