Pakistani Problems 10/7

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39555858/ns/world_news-south_and_central_asia/

Thursday's suicide attacks on Karachi, Pakistan's Sufi shrine has left seven dead, and 65 more wounded. The attack came at a time of tension between Washington and Islamabad over the recent NATO helicopter incursions that have resulted in the closing the border crossing at Torkham - a main supply line that crosses into Afghanistan in which many NATO supplies are run - and also the death of two Pakistani soldiers. The U.S. has expressed its condolences over the death of the two soldiers, but Pakistani officials are still inconclusive on when to re-open the border crossing. Trucks and tankers stranded in the backed up traffic became sitting ducks for further terrorist attacks which led to the ignition of seventy tankers. The closure of the Torkham pass has not had a major effect on the number of supplies which  have reached soldiers in Afghanistan, because of various other routes by which the means travel.

The sitution in this U.S.-allied country is deteriorating at a hasty rate. Islamic extremists have been pummeling the region as of late with suicide bombings and such, because of Pakistani allowance of NATO supply lines within the region. These supplies are then used to cast destruction upon the Islamic militants. With an increasing number of missle strikes in the Northern region, I believe that things are going to get even uglier in the Middle East.