I was in Vietnam, you knowKerry
Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, the Senate's current
foreign policy expert, filling the vacated wingtips of Joe Biden...
is to visit Pakistain amid frosty relations between the two countries, reports say.
John Kerry is to visit Pakistain this week to meet Pak officials in a bid to resolve many serious issues.
"There are some serious questions, obviously, there are some serious issues that that we've just got to find a way to resolve together," he has told news hounds.
The visit is planned after the recent raid on Bin Laden compound further strained ties between the two countries.
Mr Kerry has said he expects to see "all the main players", reports say.
He is expected to also visit Afghanistan after meeting Pak officials.
Meanwhile,
...back at the Alamo, Davey was counting their remaining cannon balls and not liking the results...
chairing the third in a series of hearings on Afghanistan and Pakistain Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry said now we are focusing on the path the B.O. regime needs to take in order to hand over security responsibility to Afghan cops by 2014.
"the late Osama bin Laden's
... who has won the race to that place where we all eventually end up...
death was more than a critical triumph in our fight against terrorism. It provides a potentially game-changing opportunity to build momentum for a political solution in Afghanistan that could bring greater stability to the region and bring our troops home," he said during the hearing on Afghanistan and Pakistain.
The killing of Bin Laden in Abbottabad near Islamabad raised a lot of tough questions against Pakistain.
It was widely expected that Pakistain should explain why the al-Qaeda leader could live in comfort in the garrison twon of Abbottabad near the capital.
Both the Afghanistan's Caped President and experts here believed killing of Bin Laden on Pak territory was a strong evidence that terrorist sanctuaries existed in Pakistain.
Experts accused Pakistain of harbouring Osma Bin Laden for so many years.
However,
The emphatic
However...
in a recent address to Pakistain's parliament, Pak Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani
... Pakistain's erstwhile current prime minister, whose occasional feats of mental gymnastics can be awe-inspiring ...
, rejected all allegations that the killing showed his country's incompetence or complicity in helping Bin Laden to live a covert life.
Mr Gilani described the accusations against his country and the ISI as "absurd".
What was viewed as the United States mistrust towards Pakistain was the fact the Pak officials had not been informed of the raid in advance.
US officials said they did not keep Pakistain informed in advance over fears that the misson would be jeopardised.
A newly published report by the New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
even wrote that President Barack
B.O.Obama had emphasised that the Bin Laden compound raid team be well-prepared and large enough to fight its way out if challenged by Pak forces.
President B.O. had previously urged Pakistain to investigate how the al-Qaeda leader could live in the garrison city of Abbottabad undetected and to find out if any officials knew of his whereabouts.