Military leaders to meet to salvage Pakistan-US ties
WASHINGTON: The top US and Pakistani military leaders were to meet on the sidelines of a NATO meeting in hopes of fixing strained ties following the US military operation that killed Osama bin Laden
Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mike Mullen and his counterpart General Ashfaq Kayani are to meet on the margins of a NATO conference beginning in Spain on Friday, the Defense Department official, who asked not to be named, said.
It will be the first meeting between the two military leaders since the May 2 night time military raid of US navy seals.
"It's not like the relationship has totally ended, but some rebuilding has got to be done," the military source told AFP.
As relations worsened in the aftermath of the raid, Washington announced that it could cut some of the $2.7 billion in military aid received by Pakistan.
While relations are frayed, Pakistan is seen as key for US military operations in Afghanistan, where the United States is to trying to beat down a resilient Taliban insurgency.
Copyright AFP (Agence France-Presse), 2011
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