Gilani and Obama make a vow to strengthen relations between the two nations

Gilani and Obama make a vow to strengthen relations between the two nations

The Prime Minister of Pakistan Yousuf Raza Gilani and the President of the United States met recently in order to talk about the relations between both the countries. The meeting took place in Seoul, where the Nuclear Security Summit was being held.

Obama expressed himself on the matter in the following words while talking to the reporters, “There have been times – I think we should be candid – over the last several months where those relations have had periods of strains. But I welcome the fact that
the parliament of Pakistan is reviewing, after some extensive study, the nature of this relationship. I think it’s important to get it right. I think it’s important for us to have candid dialogue, to work through these issues.”

On the other hand, the Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani made the following statements: “We are committed to fighting against extremism. We want stability in Afghanistan and Pakistan.”

The NATO supply routes were cut by the government of Pakistan after it had inflicted air strikes on two of the border posts of the country. The air strikes had resulted in the deaths of 24 Pakistani soldiers. The NATO forces had carried on the aggression
for a total of two hours despite the fact that they received repeated requests by their Pakistani counter parts to stop the attacks.

After the attacks had finally stopped, the military of Pakistan had termed them as acts of unprovoked blatant aggression while the stance of the NATO forces had been that they had been carried out because of error on both the sides.

As a consequence, the government of Pakistan had immediately cut out its supply routes to the NATO forces that were stationed in Afghanistan.   

The relationship between Pakistan as well as the United States of America experienced its worst moment in the past decade as hostility in the public of Pakistan against the super power grew. The government of Pakistan demanded an official apology from the
head of state of the super power but no such apology came. Similar was the case between the relations of Pakistan and the NATO as they also experienced a severe downturn.

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Posted by Rabiya Maqbool on Mar 28 2012. Filed under Pakistan, Politics. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry