UK voices concern about the Pakistan-US deadlock

The British Foreign Secretary William Hague Tuesday for concern over the deadlock in the seven months between Pakistan and the United States to re-open the supply routes of NATO to Afghanistan.Pakistan closed its border with Afghanistan to supply NATO after the United States by land air strikes killed 24 Pakistani soldiers last November. Washington has refused to formally apologize to the United States said Monday it deaths.The negotiators pulled the low-level technocrats from Pakistan after talks on access to open the border have failed again. "We look forward to the United States and Pakistan to work together successfully and the biggest concern for us, even those of the lines of communication, it will be the dispute between the United States and Pakistan," said a British minister to visit said.He he had raised this issue in his meetings with Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and Minister of Foreign Affairs Hina Rabbani Khar, and he hoped the two sides can reach a solution."Obviously we want to solve this issue, and of course we raised it and discuss it today," The Hague added.The withdrawal of U.S. negotiators more pressure in the relations between the two allies face, and comes after criticism from U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, the Secretary, which has seen Pakistan's leader the army refused to meet the negotiators official.The the Pentagon was in Pakistan for about six weeks, and it was U.S. officials believe they were close to reaching an agreement with Islamabad to lift the siege.