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| Barack Obama snubs Asif Ali Zardari |
| Barack Obama snubs Asif Ali Zardari over NATO supply routes
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 22-May-2012
5:6:27 AM |
| In an unmistakable snub, US President Barack Obama left Pakistan off a list of nations he thanked for help getting war supplies into Afghanistan.
The omission speaks to the prolonged slump in US relations with Pakistan that clouded a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) summit where nations were eyeing the exits in Afghanistan.
Mr Obama readily acknowledged that the tensions raise questions about whether Pakistan will help or hurt the goal of a stable Afghanistan. Continued mistrust between the United States and Pakistan also threaten cooperation to eliminate Al Qaeda sanctuaries and could undermine US confidence in the security of Pakistan's growing nuclear arsenal
We need to work through some of the tensions that have inevitably arisen after 10 years of our military presence in that region," Mr Obama said Monday. "I don't want to paper over real challenges there."
Pakistan is not a NATO member but was invited to the summit on Sunday and Monday because of its influence in next-door Afghanistan and its role until last year as the major supply route to landlocked NATO forces there. Pakistan closed those routes after a US attack on the Pakistani side of the border killed 24 Pakistani soldiers in November.
The last-minute invitation from NATO to join the Chicago talks was a sign of hope that the rift had healed.
But it hasn't. And Mr Obama's dealings with Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari made that clear on Monday.
Mr Zardari came to the US President's home town expecting a separate meeting with the US leader like the one accorded to Afghan President Hamid Karzai. But without a final deal to reopen the supply lines, no such meeting was to occur.
Mr Obama, along with Mr Karzai, did speak briefly with Mr Zardari on the sidelines of a large group meeting Monday. Mr Karzai dismissed the encounter in an interview with CNN as a "three-way photograph taking ...
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