In the midst of a unanimous national mood against the NATO attack on the Salala checkpost, President Asif Ali Zardari gave a cold shoulder to US Ambassador Cameron Munter on Tuesday and declined the US request for an early resumption of NATO supplies and no evacuation of the Shamsi airbase.
A source told Pakistan Today that the president conveyed to the US envoy that since the matter had been taken up by the parliamentary committee while the government had decided to summon the joint sitting of parliament to review the situation, now the matter was with parliament, which would take the decision on the future of Pak-US relations.
He also said the cabinet had already decided to boycott the Bonn Conference, which was self-explanatory and reflected the will of the people of Pakistan, added the source. The source said that during the meeting with the president, the US ambassador delivered a condolence message from President Barack Obama and urged President Zardari to play his role in pacifying the situation. The source quoted the ambassador as saying that soured relations between the US and Pakistan were not in the interest of either country or regional peace as well as an amicable resolution to the Afghan problem. He also told the president that Pakistan was a trusted friend for the US and decades-old relations must not be held hostage to an isolated incident, added the source.
The source also said the president told the ambassador that the situation in Pakistan was grave and public pressure had pushed the government to take harsh decisions, which could not be reversed without some concrete measures and a way forward by the ISAF and the US administration.
what does last paragraph means? It is the public pressure which forced Govt to take harsh decision means govt was not inclined to take harsh decision. Had the govt in the past taken decisions on public pressure, not a single time. This time time too. This was the estalishment which forced them to take harsh decisions rather I would say Govt had not taken any decision on first day. It was military establishment which reacted and stopped supply.
in punjabi ..ahno kandy ny gongloan ton matti gadna. we do not want to fight against usa. bas geo or geny do
200 percent agree with analysis of Saleem sahib. 🙂
If Pakistani leaders Zardari and Gilani had any SHAME and SELF RESPECT then they should STOP taking aid from US like beggars and STOP all cooperation in the war against terror. Pakistan must now cooperate only on IT'S OWN TERMS! For example – having a greater say in the post NATO/US Afghanistan!
I think Haqqani has written such fresh piece of foolish memo on behalf of the man who sick and mentally incapable to speak or write.
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