03-06-2007, 03:08 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--> <b>Pakistan calls key envoys home for consultations on major challenges </b> (Kuwait News Agency)
ISLAMABAD, March 5 (KUNA) - Amid growing international concern about an impending spring-offensive by Taliban in war-torn Afghanistan, Pakistan has called back home key envoys for consolations on major challenges confronting the country, said a report here Monday.
The two-day consultative meeting convened by Foreign Secretary Riaz Mohammad Khan would begin on Thursday and bring together seven Pakistani envoys, daily Dawn reported citing diplomatic sources.
It said all vital aspects of the country's foreign policy and national security would be reviewed during the closed-door deliberations.
<b>Dawn said Pakistan's Permanent Representative to the UN in New York, Munir Akram, Ambassador to the US Mehmud Durrani, Ambassador to China Salman Bashir, High Commissioner to the UK Dr Maleeha Lodhi, High Commissioner to India Shahid Malik, and ambassadors from Afghanistan and Iran would be attending the meeting.</b>
The consultations had acquired special significance, taking place amid growing international concern about a spring-offensive in Afghanistan and mounting pressure on Pakistan from the US, Afghanistan, the NATO, and other key members of the international community for 'not doing enough' to curb Taliban insurgency and cross-border terrorism.
The strained relations with the US, Afghanistan, and Iran over terrorism issues would also figure in discussions, sources told Dawn.
Pakistan had been the target of scathing criticism in the American and Western policy making circles as well as the US Congress in the past few weeks for letting its tribal areas turn into safe havens for Al-Qaeda and Taliban militants.
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Ok looks like strategy to save OBL.
ISLAMABAD, March 5 (KUNA) - Amid growing international concern about an impending spring-offensive by Taliban in war-torn Afghanistan, Pakistan has called back home key envoys for consolations on major challenges confronting the country, said a report here Monday.
The two-day consultative meeting convened by Foreign Secretary Riaz Mohammad Khan would begin on Thursday and bring together seven Pakistani envoys, daily Dawn reported citing diplomatic sources.
It said all vital aspects of the country's foreign policy and national security would be reviewed during the closed-door deliberations.
<b>Dawn said Pakistan's Permanent Representative to the UN in New York, Munir Akram, Ambassador to the US Mehmud Durrani, Ambassador to China Salman Bashir, High Commissioner to the UK Dr Maleeha Lodhi, High Commissioner to India Shahid Malik, and ambassadors from Afghanistan and Iran would be attending the meeting.</b>
The consultations had acquired special significance, taking place amid growing international concern about a spring-offensive in Afghanistan and mounting pressure on Pakistan from the US, Afghanistan, the NATO, and other key members of the international community for 'not doing enough' to curb Taliban insurgency and cross-border terrorism.
The strained relations with the US, Afghanistan, and Iran over terrorism issues would also figure in discussions, sources told Dawn.
Pakistan had been the target of scathing criticism in the American and Western policy making circles as well as the US Congress in the past few weeks for letting its tribal areas turn into safe havens for Al-Qaeda and Taliban militants.
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Ok looks like strategy to save OBL.