Pakistan invited to NATO summit, is considering whether to attend

Pakistan announced today that it has been officially invited to the summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), based in the U.S. city of Chicago on 20 and 21 next, and is considering whether to attend.   According to a government statement, the secretary general of the Atlantic alliance, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, telephone transmitted the invitation to President Asif Ali Zardari. The president replied that "in light of the recommendations of Parliament and the Government" will consider the proposal to assist the summit, whose main objective is to define the role of the international community following the withdrawal of foreign troops from Afghanistan in late 2014. The note said that the invitation is not qualified to reopen supply routes for forces NATO stationed in Afghanistan, blocked for nearly six months in response to a bombing of two control points on the border with the neighboring nation that killed 24 soldiers.Local analysts, however, commented that both the U.S. and NATO have had "intense pressure" to release the tracks and Islamabad have conditioned themselves to that decision for attending the summit in Chicago, where they will present more than 60 leaders and heads of state. one day ago, Rasmussen himself warned that relations with the South Asian nation would be "seriously affected" if he refused to reopen the roads. Yesterday, on the other hand, the Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar said that Pakistan can not sustain indefinitely the measure for being aware of their responsibilities in the war on insurgency and because you can not afford a confrontation with the 48 NATO states.