The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan
Credit: Xpress Tribune
Published: July 19, 2012
ISLAMABAD: A high-powered gathering of the country’s civil and military leadership here on Wednesday finalised a strategy for Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf’s maiden trip to Kabul on today (Thursday), and the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) chief’s crucial meeting with his American counterpart next week in the US. The meeting, co-chaired by the president and prime minister, was attended by Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar, Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee Chairman General Khalid Shameem Wynne, Army Chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Muhammad Asif Sandila and Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Tahir Rafique Butt as well as other key officials.
“The security situation in the region was discussed during the meeting,” said a terse statement issued after the meeting. However, sources said that the meeting focused on Pakistan-US ties in the backdrop of the recent breakthrough in the months-old diplomatic standoff over the resumption of Nato supplies to Afghanistan through Pakistan’s land routes. More