US needs to respect Pak sovereignty

COAS Gen Kayani has made it clear that US needs to respect Pak sovereignty. US Central Command Commander General James N. Mattis, and ISAF Commander in Afghanistan General John Allen called on Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani at the GHQ on Wednesday. The November 26 strikes, for which the United States has so far refused to apologise, came under discussion in detail. The strike had prompted Pakistan to shut its Afghan border to NATO supplies and evict American personnel from an air base reportedly used in its drone war against Al-Qaeda and the Taliban. According to a statement issued by ISPR, it was the first high level meeting after Salala incident and focused on the inquiry into the incident and improvements in Border Coordination Procedures. On Thursday, US President Barack Obama met Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani at a nuclear summit in Seoul, and vowed to rescue their troubled alliance which almost ruptured over months of mistrust and recriminations. It was the highest-level exchange between the two sides since the killing of Osama bin Laden in a clandestine US raid last May, which humiliated Pakistan and raised fresh questions about its allegiance in the war on terror.