The United States said Tuesday it supported calls by Pakistan for mutual respect but held off a formal response to a parliamentary demand for an apology over a deadly air raid.
Pakistani lawmakers earlier Tuesday called for taxes on NATO convoys and demanded an apology for the November raid near the border that killed 24 soldiers, plunging relations between the war partners to a new low.
State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told reporters that the United States would not comment in-depth on the long-awaited Pakistani report on US relations until it comes up for debate in parliament next week.
But she said: “We also have always considered that our relationship should be grounded on the basis of mutual respect and common interest.”
“We believe that we have a lot to do together, not only in combating terrorism and creating more security, but in strengthening and promoting economic prosperity, democratic development inside Pakistan and in strengthening Pakistan as a good neighbor throughout the region,” she said.
The United States sent its condolences over the November air strikes, but stopped short of an apology. NATO expressed regret over what it called a “tragic unintended incident.”
Pakistan closed its Afghan border after the air strikes, the latest deterioration in a relationship that came under new scrutiny after US forces found and killed Osama bin Laden living inside Pakistan in May.
no i dont think soooooo
What difference will it make? NATO route is already reopened, and the proposed taxation will probably be peanuts, and buy more houses and imported furniture for the generals.
i also do not think so
not at all, finally….our leadership will surrender as usual…!!
Do you think they are ever bound for such apology..they are our Masters…not Friends…as said by our First Military Dictator..Hazrat Ayub Khan…who’s images we can still see on the back of Truck…
good Tabish, hahhaha
Did Pakistan ever issued an unconditional apology to Bangladesh for the massacre our army committed there?
Our priorities are twisted! Asking the superpower that feeds us to issue global apologies on a few men killed accisently in a war zone.
Daydreaming or simply a waste of time!
kabhi nahin
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