Pakistan wants to rebuild its ties with the United States: Pak PM Gilani
Kiran Chaube
Dec. 5, 2011

Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani’s said that Pakistan is looking for a way to restore some normalcy to ties with Washington following the November 26 air strikes by the US-led coalition in Afghanistan. However, he explained that Pakistan wants to leverage the situation to try and reset the relationship in ways more beneficial to Pakistan.

In an interview with The Associated Press, Gilani also said the country remained committed to working with Afghanistan to bring insurgent leaders – many of whom are believed to be on Pakistani soil and to enjoy close relations with Islamabad’s security forces – into talks with the government and allow the US to begin withdrawing its troops as it is committed to doing.

“I think we have evolved some mechanisms, and we are ready to cooperate,” he said, referring to meetings with Afghanistan’s military and intelligence chiefs on a framework for talks. “We are committed (to reconciliation), despite that we are not attending” the conference on Afghanistan, he said.

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