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Clinton to visit Pak but no date set: US
WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will visit Pakistan for ‘strategic’ talks following the US raid that killed Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, but no date has been set, a spokesman said.
Clinton "does plan to visit Pakistan in order to have an in-depth strategic discussion about our cooperation and to convey the US government's views on the way forward with Pakistan," State Department spokesman Mark Toner said.
"She'll go when she can have those discussions in the right context and with the right preparation. And we're engaged right now with the Pakistanis to lay that groundwork," Toner told reporters.
In the past 24 hours, he added, Clinton spoke about her travel plans and other subjects with Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, and General Ashfaq Kayani, the army chief.
During a visit to Islamabad designed to ease distrust after US troops killed bin Laden on May 2 in a garrison city near Islamabad, US Senator John Kerry mentioned that Clinton would visit the country to "develop new trust."
He said Pakistan had "recommitted to find more ways to work against the common threat of terrorism" and to increase cooperation on intelligence sharing and operations to "defeat the enemies that we face." (AFP)
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