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President Obama’s special representative Marc Grossman said on Saturday that Pakistan lied at the heart of tremendous trade prospects between Central and South Asia,...

US Special Representative for Pakistan and Afghanistan Marc Grossman on Wednesday assured Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani that the US was not contemplating a...

US Special Envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan Marc Grossman on Tuesday said Pakistan had to decide about its future on its own, stressing that...

The United States has refused to assure Pakistan that it would not repeat an Abbottabad-like unilateral operation inside the country as Special Envoy Marc...

US Special Representative for Pakistan and Afghanistan Marc Grossman arrived here on Wednesday to carry forward US efforts for improving ties with Pakistan and...

US Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Marc Grossman arrives here today (Monday) to hold talks with Pakistani leaders on ways to end the...

WASHINGTON - Special US Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Ambassador Marc Grossman has expressed regrets over civilian casualties in Pakistan and thus took the first step to pave the way for resolving disagreement between the two allies after a drone strike in North Waziristan on March 17 killed several tribal elders.
Grossman insisted that the object of the US mission in Afghanistan and its cooperation with Pakistan was "protecting people and improving their lives,"

ISLAMABAD - US special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Marc Grossman, is arriving in the next few days to discuss the Afghanistan situation and the contentious issue of Raymond Davis with the Pakistani leadership. This would be Grossman's first visit to Pakistan after his appointment as the special regional envoy last month. He will also visit Kabul, London, Jeddah and Brussels, according to a US embassy statement issued here on Tuesday.
In his meetings here, Grossman will

NEW YORK - Veteran diplomat Marc Grossman was officially named Friday as the US special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, tasked with smoothing out two of the most complicated US relationships. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced Grossman's appointment to succeed Richard Holbrooke, a legendary negotiator who suddenly died on December 13 of a torn aorta at age 69.
Grossman "knows our allies and understands how to mobilize common action to meet shared challenges,"

WASHINGTON - Retired diplomat Marc Grossman will replace late Richard Holbrooke as US special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, The Washington Post reported. The Post said Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would announce the appointment in a major speech on the embattled region on Friday at the Asia Society in New York, or before.
It said months of disagreements between the White House and the State Department over the parameters of the job had delayed the announcement. A