After saying that Washington was losing patience with Pakistan for not acting on terror groups, the US is now trying to tone down its stance. It now says America is “working constructively with Pakistan” to fight terror, foreign media reported on Tuesday.
Reportedly, the sudden conciliatory tone comes after Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar’s warning that the US risked losing its partnership with Pakistan if it continued criticising Islamabad.
The foreign minister of angry Pakistan warned that the US risked losing its partnership with Pakistan if it continued its scathing criticism of the ISI’s role in terror. She was also quoted as saying that the Haqqani group was the CIA’s “blue-eyed boy” for many years.
Khar’s rap seems to have hit the right note with the US now attempting to tone down the open spat with Pakistan. State Department spokesperson Mark Toner said his government reaffirmed American commitments to its relationship with Pakistan.
“US recognises Haqqani network an area of concern. We have identified that, we’ve raised it at the highest levels with the Pakistanis. We’ve said we need to take action against the Haqqani Network, and were committed at this point to working constructively with them to do that,” he said.
“We are addressing these concerns by working constructively with the Pakistani government,” he added.
US seems to back down after Hina Rabbani’s rap: Report
