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US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari yesterday and thanked him for Pakistan’s handling of several days of violent anti-US protests.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Clinton greeted Zardari as “my friend” and introduced him to the new US ambassador to Pakistan, Richard Olson<\/strong>, whom she said she had just been sworn in so he could attend their talks.<\/p>\n

Zardari said it had been “a difficult time for all of us” before reporters were ushered out of the room.<\/p>\n

Pakistan has been rocked by days of violent protests in its major cities as demonstrations have swept Muslim countries in the Middle East<\/strong>, North Africa and South Asia over an anti-Islam film.<\/p>\n

Friday’s protests left 21 dead, and more than 200 injured as Pakistani police fought back to disperse crowds around US diplomatic missions.<\/p>\n

Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar insisted on Friday that ties between the United States and Pakistan are improving after hitting a low following the killing of Osama bin Laden<\/strong> in a Pakistani compound in May 2011, and a US airstrike in November which killed 24 Pakistani troops.<\/p>\n

“We have been through some of the most difficult times in our 60-year history,” Khar said before talks with Clinton in Washington, admitting “the last 18 months were very, very difficult.”<\/p>\n

But she said amid concerted efforts the two nations were doing “better than we could have expected to do in building the trust.”<\/p>\n

Source AFP<\/em>
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