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Article: Pakistani prime minister visits Washington amid U.S.-Pakistan tension over airstrike
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- January 23, 2006
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FOSTER KLUG, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
01-23-2006
Dateline: WASHINGTON
Pakistan's prime minister visits Washington this week at a time of rising tension between the two allies, with thousands demonstrating regularly in Pakistan to denounce a U.S. airstrike that killed civilians earlier this month.
As Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz meets Monday with Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, and with President George W. Bush on Tuesday, Pakistani officials are taking care to affirm their loyalty to America in the war on terror.
But relations between Islamabad and Washington have sunk since the Jan. 13 attack that killed at least 13 civilians, including women and children. Anti-American ...