Islamabad, Oct 28(ANI): Pakistan is moving closer to China in the wake of strained ties with the United States following the Osama bin Laden raid and the deepening of New Delhi-Washington relationship, a Congressional report has said.
"As US-India ties deepen and US-Pakistan ties appear to deteriorate, many observers see Islamabad becoming more reliant than ever on its friendship with Beijing," The Nation quoted the latest report on Pakistan by the independent Congressional Research Service, as saying.
"US-Pakistan acrimony in the wake of Osama bin Laden's death appears to have increased Pakistan's reliance on China as a key international ally," the report noted.
"Pakistani leaders have become notably more and perhaps overly effusive in their expressions of closeness with China in 2011," it added.
Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani's visit to China in May elicited no major new embrace from Beijing, but the Chinese government did insist that the West "must respect" Pakistan's sovereignty, the report said.
However, it also said that the Chinese government is unlikely to place itself in the middle of any US-Pakistani rift, nor has it shown any desire to replace Washington as Islamabad's primary foreign benefactor. (ANI)
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