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US and Pakistan military officials are believed to be engaged in discussions aimed at deciding which facilities American forces could need as and when it launches military operations in Afghanistan.
According to CNN, the US is believed to be asking for a former B-52 bomber facility in Quetta, Pakistan, close to the border with Afghanistan, what was earlier used during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan.
Officials of the Bush administration are also reportedly in discussions, on similar lines, with the government of Uzbekistan. The country shares a 137-km border with Afghanistan on the north.
Tajikistan -- which shares a 1,206-km border with Afghanistan on the north -- has already given the US permission to overfly its territory. The US, says CNN, has neither sought nor received ground facilities from this country.
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