ISLAMABAD: Pakistan said that relations with estranged ally Washington were getting back on track and called for joint regional peace efforts after Afghanistan and India signed a strategic pact.
The tense partnership between Pakistan and the US in the “war on terror” took a battering last month, with Washington demanding that Islamabad take action against the Haqqani network and cut alleged ties to the group. But Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani was upbeat. “Relations between Pakistan and the US often experience ups and downs but these relations are now coming back towards right direction,” he said.
Asked about Pakistan’s feelings on the burgeoning India-Afghanistan alliance, Gilani said: “Both are sovereign countries and they have the right to do whatever they want to. “We all are in the same region and we want to work together for peace and prosperity in the region and I think we should work together.”
Published in The Express Tribune, October 6th, 2011.
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