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WASHINGTON, Sept 20: Pakistan has been quietly told by the US in
back-channel diplomacy to sign the CTBT conditionally, with a provision to
restart nuclear testing if India does so, knowledgeable sources revealed on
Monday.
Pray to GANESH aka Washington to remove obstacles for IMF money
Shahbaz Sharif is trying to reach some agreement on how to appease the
Clinton administration so that Washington does not put obstacles to the release
of the vital $280 million tranche by the IMF in the next few days, something
which could spell disaster for the Nawaz Sharif government and Pakistan as a
whole
US senator DODD dodges PAKI ZAKI
Listen friends, US wants PAKIS to disown Taliban and renounce CROSS-BORDER TERRORISM, before Washington is receptive to PAKIS
Shahbaz, NO SHAHBAZ NOW, TRY HARDER
In response to these moves, all that Pakistan has done is to start the
back-channel diplomacy through Shahbaz Sharif while officially Senator
Akram Zaki has been trying to find his way in the maze of US Capitol Hill
politics. The sources said that apart from a couple of Pakistan-friendly congressmen,
the senator had not been able to see anyone on the Hill who could actually
make any difference for Pakistan in the upcoming legislative battles.
"Zaki was refused even a meeting by important Senator Chris Dodd, who is
not even known as sympathetic to India," the sources revealed.
The Zaki mission has been such a failure that in almost 10 days in Washington
he did not meet Pakistani newsmen for the fear that he may be asked some
searching questions to which he obviously had no answers. The embassy did
not even venture to give out the list of people Zaki saw during his stay in
Washington. |
