...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions...
supply lines and a perception that it has agreed behind closed doors to US demands in this regard is wrong, Information Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira said on Wednesday.
He said at a press briefing after a meeting of the federal cabinet that NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen had extended an unconditional invitation to President
Asif Ali President Ten PercentZardari
... sticky-fingered husband of the late Benazir Bhutto ...
to participate in the organization's summit in Chicago.
In his opening remarks at the cabinet meeting, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani
... Pakistain's erstwhile current prime minister, whose occasional feats of mental gymnastics can be awe-inspiring ...
said: "Our relations with NATO and the US are passing through a delicate phase where we need to take critical decisions keeping in view our strategic importance in the region
and our national interests."
He said the country had not, and would not, compromise on its principled stand, but would also not take "emotional decisions which will harm it in the long run".