Encouragingly, after a gap of seven months when no military supplies could reach Afghanistan via the Khyber Pass – a cutoff that followed the death of Pakistani soldiers at the hands of NATO troops firing across the border – NATO trucks in early July were finally allowed to cross again. Somewhat guardedly, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced: “(Pakistani) Foreign Minister (Hina Rabbani) Khar and I acknowledged the mistakes that resulted in the loss of Pakistani military lives.
但振奋人心的是，在向阿富汗运输军事补给的开伯尔山口被切断整整7个月后——这起事件因为北约部队向别境地区开火造成巴基斯坦士兵死伤而引起——北约卡车终于在7月初获得通行许可。而美国国务卿希拉里·克林顿也不无保留地宣称：“（巴基斯坦）外长希娜·拉巴尼·哈尔（Hina Rabbani Khar）和我都认识到了由巴基斯坦军人伤亡所引发的错误事件。我们对巴基斯坦军队所遭受的损失感到抱歉。”前者保证避免在未来发生这类事件的承诺似乎也满足了巴方重开北约边界补给线的条件。