06-30-2006, 03:00 AM
Pakistan angrily reacts to Rice's comments
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Pakistan - Pakistan's Foreign Ministry responded angrily to a call by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice for democratic elections next year, saying it doesn't need "outside" advice.
The comments came in a statement late Wednesday, a day after Rice met with President Gen. Pervez Musharraf in Pakistan's capital.
En route to Islamabad, Rice told reporters "there has to be, the world expects there to be, democratic, free and fair elections in Pakistan in 2007."
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I don't get it. US citizen is PM of Pakistan but Rice advise is 'outside' advice?
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Pakistan - Pakistan's Foreign Ministry responded angrily to a call by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice for democratic elections next year, saying it doesn't need "outside" advice.
The comments came in a statement late Wednesday, a day after Rice met with President Gen. Pervez Musharraf in Pakistan's capital.
En route to Islamabad, Rice told reporters "there has to be, the world expects there to be, democratic, free and fair elections in Pakistan in 2007."
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I don't get it. US citizen is PM of Pakistan but Rice advise is 'outside' advice?