WASHINGTON: The US State Department on Tuesday publicly defended one of its senior diplomats for communicating with PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari.
Interestingly, spokesman Robert Wood also did not deny the contents of an e-mail from Assistant Secretary Richard Boucher, criticising US ambassador to the UN, Zalmay Khalilzad, for counselling Mr Zardari.
“Ambassador Khalilzad is well-known throughout the region. He has a lot of contacts,” Mr Wood told a regular briefing in Washington.
“He is very well informed about the region. The president (Bush) and secretary (Condoleezza Rice) really do respect and depend on his counsel.”
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