Hillary Clinton visits Pakistan

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton paid a surprise visit to Pakistan on Friday amid the ongoing tussles between the two countries post the killing of al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden.

Clinton arrived in Islamabad on Friday with US Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Admiral Mike Mullen.

She is likely to meet Pakistani President Asif Ali zardari, Army chief General Ashfaq Kayani and the chief of Pakistan’s powerful intelligence agency Ahmad Shuja Pasha.

Before her arrival at Islamanbad, Clinton said Pakistan is cooperating the US in fighting terrorism.

“We do have a set of expectations that we are looking for the Pakistani government to meet but I want to underscore, in conclusion, that it is not as though they have been on the sidelines,” Clinton told a news conference in Paris on Thursday.

“They have been actively engaged in their own bitter fight with these terrorist extremists,” she said.

“There have been times when we’ve had differences. There have been times when we wanted to push harder. For various reasons they have not. Those differences are real but the fact is that the international community has been able to kill more terrorists on Pakistani soil than anywhere else.

?We could not have done that without Pakistani co-operation,” said Clinton.

Osama was killed in Pakistan by US Navy Seals late on May 2, ending an almost decade long manhunt for the world’s most sought after terrorist.

Responsible for the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, that killed about 3,000 people, Osama was hunted worldwide only to be found nearly ten years later in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad.