Source: AP
Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani’s White House visit Monday comes amid increased calls by senior U.S. officials for Pakistan to stop militants from staging cross-border attacks on U.S. forces in Afghanistan.
The prime minister may have his own issues to raise in his talks with President Bush: Gilani visits Washington at a tense moment […]

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Source: Trib

By Robert Novak
Yousuf Raza Gilani, prime minister of Pakistan, will lunch with George W. Bush in the White House on July 28. That will not be merely another of the president’s routine meetings with foreign leaders. As Pakistan’s democratically elected government and U.S. diplomats understand, the lunch symbolizes a turn away from Washington’s […]

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Source: AFP
ISLAMABAD - US President George W. Bush telephoned Pakistan’s new Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani to congratulate him on being sworn in on Tuesday, a government official said.
Gilani, a senior official from slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto’s party, took the oath as prime minister from Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf at the presidential palace in […]

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