Chinese Vice Prime Minister arrived for two day visit

Pakistan News:

                            Chinese Vice Prime Miniter Meng Jiznzhu arrived on Islamabad for two day official visit and hold talk with Pakistani leaders, E Pakistan News Reported.

Interior Minister Rehman Malik received from Chaklala Airport to the respectable guest Chinese Prime Miniter, he said China would stand with Pakistan on his every step and condition.

One the one hand, Chinese leader will meet and hold talks with Pakistani military leadership and will discus the country situation.

In the Meantime, President Asif Ali Zardari will host a dinner with Chinese Vice Prime Minister and continue the meeting between them.

The Chinese Vice Prime Minister will have a conference with Interior Minister Rehman Malik on breakfast tomorrow.

Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) chief Lieutenant General Ahmed Shuja Pasha will call on the guest on lunch.

The Chinese leader will leave for his home tomorrow after having a meeting with Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani.
Analysts are attaching more importance to this visit in the conditions of US threats to Pakistan regarding Haqqani Network.

Top Chinese security official visits Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: China’s top security official is visiting Pakistan for talks focusing on increased cooperation against Chinese militants who have found sanctuary in the northwest of the country.

Public Security Minister Meng Jianzhu’s visit Monday also comes at a time of intense strain between Islamabad and Washington.

Pakistani officials have been talking up their country’s relationship with China, with some commentators saying it could one day replace the US as Islamabad’s main foreign benefactor.

Interior Minister Rehman Malik said Sunday that Pakistan had killed several Chinese militants in the northwest and extradited others.

He also said Jianzhu’s visit shows China ”always stands with us in difficult times”.

Pakistan army chief Kayani cancels UK visit

LONDON: Pakistan’s powerful army chief has canceled a Monday visit to Britain as US outrage grows over allegations that Pakistani spies helped insurgents attack American targets in Afghanistan.

Britain’s Ministry of Defense said Gen. Ashfaq Pervez Kayani, who was expected to meet privately with UK Defense Minister Liam Fox, had canceled. It declined to speculate on why the visit was scrapped.

A Pakistani official said Kayani was staying in Pakistan to hold talks on the crisis sparked by the US accusations against Pakistan’s military-run Inter-Services Intelligence spy agency. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation.

Last week, the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Mike Mullen, accused the ISI of having backed an Afghan insurgent group in the planning and execution of a Sept. 13 assault on the US Embassy in Afghanistan as well as a truck bomb that wounded 77 American soldiers days earlier.

Kayani, widely considered the most powerful man in Pakistan, has dismissed the allegations as baseless.

But a Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee has said the US should consider military action as an option against Pakistan if it continues to support terrorist attacks against Americans in Afghanistan.

Sen. Lindsey Graham also said assistance to Pakistan should be reconfigured, and that the US should no longer designate an amount of aid for Pakistan but have a more “transactional relationship” with the country.

PM convenes APC on September 29 to discuss national security

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has convened an All Parties Conference (APC) Thursday to discuss with political leaders serious challenges to national security and to forge a united stance in the face of US pressure and serious allegations levelled against the armed forces and the ISI.

In the upcoming conference, political leaders would be briefed by concerned officials over the latest challenges to national security.

The meeting would also discuss way to deal with these challenges.

Earlier on Sunday, Prime Minister Gilani telephoned leaders of various political parties and invited them to attend the national conference.

US senator says ‘all options on table’ against Pakistan

NEW YORK - The US should consider a military response to the Pakistan’s alleged support of the Haqqani militant group that attacked the American embassy in Kabul, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said.

“We need to put Pakistan on notice,” Graham, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said Sunday on the ‘Fox News Sunday’ program. “If they continue to embrace terrorism as a part of their national strategy, we’re going to have to put all options on the table, including defending our troops.”

His statement came as tensions between US and Pakistan continued to climb.

Graham said lawmakers would muster bipartisan support “to elevate our response” if needed. He didn’t specify what actions he would back.

Pakistan must stop providing safe havens for the Haqqani group, said David Plouffe, a White House senior adviser, on CNN’s “State of the Union.” US and Afghan officials have said the network of militants, supported by Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), is behind a Sept 13 assault on the US embassy with rocket-propelled grenades.

Graham said Congress should reconsider its practice of approving a designated amount of aid for Pakistan. The administration is talking about whether to change its requests for aid to the country, Plouffe said. “Those discussions are happening between our foreign policy and national security teams,” he said

Chinese Vice PM due in Capital today

ISLAMABAD (Online) - Against the back-drop of deteriorating Pak-US relations, Chinese Vice Prime Minister Hui Liangyu would be arriving here today (Monday) on a two-day official visit to Pakistan.

During the two days, he would meet senior military and political leadership of Pakistan and would discuss matters related to regional security, recent spate of US allegations, bilateral relations and other matters of mutual interest.

Sources told Online that during his trip he would give an important message to the Pakistani military and political leaders on the behalf of Chinese leadership

Zardari lauds Chinese support on key issues

ISLAMABAD (APP) -

                                      President Asif Ali Zardari Sunday said the government and people of Pakistan deeply appreciate the consistent support of the government and people of China on issues of concern.

The President was talking to Ambassador Luo Zhaohui, Director General Department of Asian Affairs of the Chinese Foreign Affairs Ministry who was accompanied by the Deputy Ambassador of China in Islamabad Huang Xilian. Pakistan’s Ambassador in China Masood Khan was also present in the meeting, which took place at the Presidency.

Bilateral issues were discussed during the meeting. The President also thanked the Chinese government for its assistance in the rescue and relief of flood victims in Sindh.

Until last year Ambassador Luo Zhaohui has been China’s Ambassador in Islamabad for nearly three years.

He arrived in Islamabad ahead of the visit of Meng Jianzhu State Councilor of China on Monday during which he will hold talks with senior political leadership of Pakistan. Later the President also hosted dinner for Ambassador Luo.