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US President Barack Obama is at loggerheads with his Pakistani counterpart Asif Ali Zardari, refusing to meet him at the NATO summit apparently over blockage of NATO supply lines into Afghanistan, an issue which continues to strain ties between two nations, American media reports said on Monday.
The New York Times said a deal to reopen the supply lines fell apart as Obama began talks on ending the NATO alliance's combat role in Afghanistan in 2013.
As a two-day NATO summit meeting opened in Chicago, Obama remained at loggerheads with Zardari, refusing even to meet him without a deal on the supply routes, which officials in both sides acknowledged would not be coming soon, it said.
"This whole breakdown in the relationship between the US and Pakistan has come down to a fixation of this apology issue," Vali Nasr, a former State Department adviser on Pakistan, was quoted as saying by the daily.
The combination of no apology and no meeting, Nasr said, "will send a powerfully humiliating message back to Pakistan."
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It seems that the talks have fallen through because:
> The US has refused to apologize for the Mohmand attack that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers.
> Pakistan has proposed raising transit fees per container by as much as 3,000 per cent, or 30-fold, at $ 5000 a container truck, a demand that Washington and its allies have rejected as excessive.
> The refusal for lowering tariffs on Pakistani goods exported to America.
> Pressure on Obama by American congressmen who accuse Pakistan of playing a 'double game' in Afghanistan by supporting the Haqqani network which is responsible for killing American troops.
Well, the void seems to be getting bigger each passing day. Will the twain ever meet? That's the million dollar question.
US President Barack Obama refuses to meet Asif Ali Zardari : Americas News - India Today
The New York Times said a deal to reopen the supply lines fell apart as Obama began talks on ending the NATO alliance's combat role in Afghanistan in 2013.
As a two-day NATO summit meeting opened in Chicago, Obama remained at loggerheads with Zardari, refusing even to meet him without a deal on the supply routes, which officials in both sides acknowledged would not be coming soon, it said.
"This whole breakdown in the relationship between the US and Pakistan has come down to a fixation of this apology issue," Vali Nasr, a former State Department adviser on Pakistan, was quoted as saying by the daily.
The combination of no apology and no meeting, Nasr said, "will send a powerfully humiliating message back to Pakistan."
_________________________________________________________________________
It seems that the talks have fallen through because:
> The US has refused to apologize for the Mohmand attack that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers.
> Pakistan has proposed raising transit fees per container by as much as 3,000 per cent, or 30-fold, at $ 5000 a container truck, a demand that Washington and its allies have rejected as excessive.
> The refusal for lowering tariffs on Pakistani goods exported to America.
> Pressure on Obama by American congressmen who accuse Pakistan of playing a 'double game' in Afghanistan by supporting the Haqqani network which is responsible for killing American troops.
Well, the void seems to be getting bigger each passing day. Will the twain ever meet? That's the million dollar question.
US President Barack Obama refuses to meet Asif Ali Zardari : Americas News - India Today
