4.09.2009

Holbrooke's trip exposes standoff between US, Pakistan

Insubordination!! That doesn't happen every day. - Ed.

By Hadi Mayar, Rao Bo

ISLAMABAD, April 9 (Xinhua) -- The visit by Richard Holbrooke, U.S. special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, and Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, to the region has, for the first time, exposed sharp differences between the United States and Pakistan with regard to anti-terror operations.

"The stance of the Pakistan side came as a rude shock to Americans," Pakistani newspapers on Wednesday quoted a source in the U.S. delegation visiting Islamabad as saying after parleys between the two sides.

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