Washington: The US has said it would wait for the outcome of the Pakistani parliamentary committee review of the nature of relationship between the two countries, and insisted that it is unlikely go beyond the deep regret which it expressed for the November 26 incident.
"I believe that the Parliamentary review is still ongoing, so we`ll wait and see the outcome of that," the State Department spokesman Mark Toner told reporters at a news briefing here yesterday. Toner said that it is unaware of fresh conditions being imposed on the US.
He was responding to questions on news reports that the Defense Coordination Committee of the Pakistan cabinet in a meeting has demanded an apology and they are specifically going to put some new taxes and custom clearance mechanism in Peshawar for NATO supplies.
"I`m not aware of the customs regulations regarding NATO supplies. The parliamentary review is still ongoing, so we`ll wait and see the outcome of that," Toner said. "We have been very clear since this report was done following the November 26th incident, expressing our regret, our condolences, our sympathies to the Pakistani people, pledging to work more cooperatively with the Pakistani military to ensure that these kinds of incidents don`t happen in the future," the official noted.
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