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May 23rd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar made the remark during an interview with local TV channel on Tuesday, saying Pakistan is not seeking a permanent blockade of NATO supplies.
In November 2011, Islamabad closed NATO supply lines following a strain in ties with Washington, after a US airstrike killed 24 Pakistani army soldiers at two border checkpoints near the border with Afghanistan.
She explained that restoration of NATO supply is not the issue only between Pakistan and the United States but it is a matter of relations with 50 countries, and that Pakistan’s stance could not be well understood if it kept at distance from the international community.
The minister also dismissed criticism against President Asif Ali Zardari’s participation in the NATO summit in Chicago as an attempt by those who want to drag the country into regression and isolation.
Zardari attended the summit in the US, but he did not meet US President Barack Obama and a scheduled session with NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen was cancelled.
During the NATO summit on Monday, the Western military alliance urged Pakistan to reopen a major supply route into Afghanistan “as soon as possible.”
Rasmussen had threatened to leave Pakistan out of the summit if the supply lines remained closed.
Comments about reopening the closed border crossing to the US-led forces have sparked an outrage across the country, with major political and religious parties calling mass demos in protest at the possible restoration of NATO supply routes.
Anti-US sentiments in Pakistan are on the rise given the CIA’s continued assassination drone attacks on the country’s northwestern tribal belt, where Washington claims Taliban and al-Qaeda leaders are hiding.
Fueling the Pakistani people’s anger is the US deaf ear to Islamabad’s call for a formal apology for last November’s deadly attack on the Pakistani army outposts.
Pakistanis also blame the US for supporting separatists in the southeastern province of Baluchistan, and accuse Washington of implicit plans to disintegrate Pakistan.
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