CIA director tries to mend US-Pakistan relations

Director of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Leon Panetta arrived today for a visit to Pakistan, where in a conversation with Pakistani officials he will try to repair damaged bilateral relations, AP writes. Relations between the US and Pakistan have deteriorated significantly after the killing of the leader of the terrorist organization Al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden. Laden in the city of Abbottabad, Pakistan, due to suspicions that his hiding was helped by structures from the Pakistani intelligence service. Panetta spoke in Islamabad with the chief of the Pakistani army, General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani, and the head of the intelligence service, General Ahmed Shuja Pasha. Panetta's visit to Islamabad is probably the last visit to Pakistan. in the capacity of the CIA's first man, because he should soon become the new US Secretary of Defense. It is also the first visit of a high-ranking American official to Pakistan since May 2 and the killing of Bin Laden. The Pakistani authorities found themselves in an unenviable position after that operation, which was carried out by members of the special American units "Navy Seals", because they were not informed by Washington. that the operation is being prepared.