Zardari reached Moscow for talks with Russian leaders

MOSCOW: Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari has reached Moscow on his first foreign tour since Osama bin Laden’s assassination earlier this month.

Zardari’s four-day visit to Russia will comprise talks with his matching part, Dmitry Medvedev, focusing on counterterrorism and avoidance of drug-trafficking in Central and Southern Asia.

The Kremlin says they as well are expected to talk about energy collaboration, as well as Russia’s contribution in a planned natural gas pipeline from Turkmenistan to India that would cross Afghanistan and Pakistan.

After bin Laden’s assassination, Zardari’s detested government faced censuring from the US, where some politicians blamed Pakistani establishment of helping the world’s most wanted radical.

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