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US Defence Secretary made 'no threats': Pakistan
December 10, 2013
Pakistan today dismissed media reports that US Secretary of Defence Chuck Hagel had warned that an American aid programme was linked to NATO supply routes to Afghanistan being kept open.
"There were no threats," Foreign Office spokesman Aizaz Chaudhry told a news channel. A statement from the Foreign Office said Hagel's meetings with Pakistani leaders here yesterday were held in a "friendly and cordial atmosphere".