The US Administration has suspended official visits of all its high-level delegations to Pakistan scheduled for the next two weeks. A senior official of Ministry of Foreign Affairs told Business Recorder that the Foreign Office had received an intimation letter from the US State Department, informing the Foreign Ministry that the US government is suspending the visits of their high-level delegations, who were scheduled to visit Pakistan in the next two weeks.
Answering a question whether the visits of US delegations had been suspended with a view to increasing pressure on the government of Pakistan for the release of Raymond Davis, who has been charged with killing two men at Lahore, he said the letter received by the Foreign Office did not mention any specific reason behind the US government's decision.
The letter further clarified that the scheduled visits of American delegations had been suspended for two weeks for "some unavoidable circumstances," but their engagements with counterparts in Pakistan had not been cancelled. To a question whether the Foreign Office remained tight-lipped on the issue of American national Davis, he said that it was due to the influence of Foreign Office that the US diplomat was facing a trial in a court of law in Pakistan. "Without the involvement of FO, the accused would have been given diplomatic immunity and sent back to the country of his origin a long time ago," the official maintained.
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