FOXNews.com: Pentagon negotiators leave Pakistan after scant progress on closed border crossings

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Pentagon negotiators leave Pakistan after scant progress on closed border crossings Jun 11th 2012, 15:19 A team of Defense Department experts who arrived in Pakistan several weeks ago to negotiate the opening of key border crossings into Afghanistan are leaving this week after having made little-to-no progress. Some of the negotiators left over the weekend, and the rest are expected to leave in the coming days, according to Pentagon spokesman George Little.   Their departure follows Defense Secretary Leon Panetta's trip to the region, where he had harsh word for Pakistan.  While in Kabul, Afghanistan, he told reporters the United States was "reaching the limits of our patience" with Pakistan. Though the negotiators are expected to return at some point in the future, it's unclear exactly when that might happen. While the Pentagon is leading the effort, the State Department plays a supporting role in the negotiations to reopen the border crossings, closed late last year after Pakistani soldiers were killed in a friendly-fire incident.

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