Islamabad: Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari has congratulated US President Barack Obama on his re-election on Wednesday and said he was hopeful that the relations between the two countries would continue to prosper.
“President Asif Ali Zardari has warmly felicitated President Barack Obama on his re-election as the President of the United States of America,” a statement from Zardari’s office said.
“The President expressed the hope that the relationship between Pakistan and the US would continue to prosper during President Obama’s new term in office.”
On paper, Pakistan is a key US ally, but on ground anti-US sentiment runs deep in the nuclear-armed nation. So much that anti-Americanism has become a slogan for many political parties.
The fractious friends lurched from crisis to crisis in 2011, first over a CIA contractor who shot dead two people in the eastern city of Lahore, then over the US raid that found and killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, and finally over botched air strikes that killed 24 Pakistani border guards.
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