GLOCs opened for regional stability: PM

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf said on Wednesday that Pakistan took the decision to reopen the Ground Lines of Communication (GLOCs) for NATO supplies in the interest of regional peace and stability in accord with national interests.

The prime minister expressed these views while talking to the outgoing US Ambassador to Pakistan Cameron Munter, who paid a farewell call on him at the PM House.

The prime minister said that Pakistan supported an Afghan-led and Afghan-owned inclusive peace and reconciliation process. He said that under the government’s policy of ‘trade not aid, the government hoped that the Obama administration would work with Congress on greater market access and a preferential tariff.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 12^th, 2012.