Pakistan rejects US envoy's visit request.(Al-Jazeera).Islamabad has rejected a request by Marc Grossman, the US special representative tofd Pakistan and Afghanistan, to visit the country, a senior official told the Reuters news agency."Ambassador Grossman asked to visit Pakistan but we conveyed to him that it was not possible at the moment," a senior Pakistani government official, who declined to be named, said on Wednesday.
Relations between Islamabad and Washington are at the lowest point in years after 24 Pakistani soldiers were killed on November 26 in a NATO air strike in the region bordering Afghanistan.
The growing tension threatens to set back peace efforts in neighbouring Afghanistan, from where the US and NATO plan to gradually withdraw troops after a decade of war.President Barack Obama’s special envoy will also visit Afghanistan and Qatar as part of the US strategy to involve the Taliban in talks for a durable peace, as the international forces led by the US are likely to pull out of Afghanistan by 2014.Pakistan's co-operation is regarded as crucial because of its long history of association with armed groups.Hmmmm........Total US aid to Pakistan to more than $18 billion post 9/11.
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