US envoy visit: Pakistan says ‘not possible’

ISLAMABAD : Pakistan has told US special envoy Marc Grossman that it is "not possible at the moment" for him to visi

Published January 18, 2012 Updated January 18, 2012 06:35am

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By Shoaib Ur Rehman

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He did not elaborate on the reasons.

Relations between Islamabad and Washington plunged to the lowest point in years when a NATO cross-border air attack killed 24 soldiers on November 26.

"Ambassador Grossman asked to visit Pakistan but we conveyed to him that it was not possible at the moment," a senior government official, who declined to be named, told Reuters.

Troubled US-Pakistan ties threaten to set back peace efforts in neighbouring Afghanistan, where the United States is gradually withdrawing troops after a decade of war.

Grossman is due to visit Afghanistan and Qatar this week, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said last Wednesday.

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