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Paknationalists The compromise agreement between Pakistan and the  United States  that allowed the resumption of NATO supplies through Pakistan to Afghanistan is verbal and unwritten. This serves the interests of both Islamabad and Washington. The Pak-US stalemate was on the surface focused on a single incident: the  deliberate American military attack  that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers on November 26, commonly known as 26/11. But in reality, the Pakistanis used the incident to launch a complete review from the Pakistani side of Pakistan’s cooperation in America’s Afghan war project. The implicit message was this: Islamabad could end the review by exiting America’s war effort, leaving thousands of US troops in Afghanistan in the lurch. To emphasize the point, the Pakistani government and military ceded control over the review to the parliament. Knowing the popular mood in Pakistan, the message was received in Washington loud and clear: parliament will ac...