Top US generals arrive in Pakistan for talks

 

28march2012

Army chief General Kayani will meet senior US generals over deadly American airstrikes


US Central Command Commander General James N. Mattis, and ISAF Commander in Afghanistan General John Allen will call on Pakistan’s Army Chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, today.

The November 26 strikes, for which the United States has so far refused to apologise, prompted Pakistan to shut its Afghan border to NATO supplies and evict American personnel from an air base reportedly used in its drone war against Al-Qaeda and the Taliban.

According to a statement issued by ISPR, It is the first high level meeting after Salala incident and will focus on the inquiry into the incident and improvements in Border Coordination Procedures.

On Thursday, US President Barack Obama met Pakistan s Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani at a nuclear summit in Seoul, and vowed to rescue their troubled alliance which almost ruptured over months of mistrust and recriminations.

It was the highest-level exchange between the two sides since the killing of Osama bin Laden in a clandestine US raid last May, which humiliated Pakistan and raised fresh questions about its allegiance in the war on terror