By Muhammad Saleh Zaafir
ISLAMABAD: "I never get late in appointment with a General," the assertion made not by a political leader from a developing country or Pakistan but the all powerful Vice President of the United States, Joe Biden Wednesday evening when he hurriedly concluded his lengthy statement that he read out in a media stakeout at the PM House after his meeting with host Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani.
Biden opted not to entertain Q&A on conclusion of his remarks by telling the anxious newsmen that he has an appointment with General Kayani and he doesn't get late in meetings with Generals. It brought laughter in the banquet hall of the PM House where the media interaction was conducted. Immediate after he drove to Rawalpindi and he was seen off at the porch of the PM House by Prime Minister Gilani and federal ministers who were part of the negotiations with the guest from across the Atlantic.
Incidentally the US vice president was late in all of his meetings since he arrived here from Kabul with the delay of one hour and left Islamabad with the delay of about three hours. He spent three hours and forty minutes in meetings while more than two hours in his in-house consultations where the US envoy for Pakistan Cameron Munter and President Obama'a special representative for the region Frank Riggero were also in attendance. The meeting with Army Chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani was two hours behind the schedule. The US dignitary was offered to travel to General Headquarters (GHQ) Rawalpindi from the PM House by chopper but he opted to proceed by his limousine that reached here from Washington a day before his arrival in Islamabad. (www.news.com.pk)
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