Obama will NOT say sorry to Pak over Nato strike deaths

December 01, 2011 14:10

The White House has ruled out President Barack Obama offering "formal condolences" to Pakistan over the killing of its 24 soldiers in a NATO strike,
as suggested by his top diplomat in Islamabad in a desperate bid to salvage deteriorating ties, a media report said today.

The request for this came on Monday, two days after the NATO attack, from US envoy to Pakistan Cameron Munter, who said that a formal video message from Obama was needed to help prevent the rapidly deteriorating relations between the two countries from cratering, administration officials were quoted
as saying by the daily.

"The ambassador, speaking by video conference from Islamabad, said that anger in Pakistan had reached a fever pitch, and that the United States needed to move to defuse it as quickly as possible," the officials said.

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