Obama has no scheduled visit to Pakistan this year: WH

Lalit K Jha
Washington, May 9 (PTI) US President Barack Obama has
no schedule, at this moment, to go to Pakistan this year, his
National Security Advisor has said, as the diplomatic fallout
from the killing of Osama bin Laden intensified.
"There's not a visit on his schedule at this point,
right, to go to Pakistan," White House National Security
Advisor Tom Donilon told the NBC news channel in an interview.
"But there wasn't, at this point in terms of
scheduling before the event of last Sunday," he added.
While the White House appears to be unwilling to
establish a link between Obama to Pakistan this year and the
last week's American operation in Abbottabad near Islamabad in
which Osama bin Laden was killed; speculation is rife that the
US President is unlikely to visit Pakistan unless there is
normalization in ties between the two countries and US is
assured that terrorist elements inside this country no long
enjoys any kind of support from the establishment.
Just before his maiden trip to India last November,
Obama in a meeting with visiting delegation of Pakistani
officials at the White House had announced that he would be
travelling to Pakistan later this year.
And before this his Pakistani counterpart Asif Ali
Zardari too would be visiting him at the White House early
this year, reporters were told.
The State Department too hasn't announced the dates of
the Strategic Dialogue; which were held three times last year.
Initially scheduled to be held in March, it was
postponed amidst the Raymond Davis controversy.
Unofficially, it was being told that the Strategic
Dialogue would be held in the last half of May.
State Department spokesman Mark Toner told reporters
this week that no dates have been determined yet.