America's relationship with Pakistan is very complicated, but a very important one as it helps in maintaining Washington's national security interest, the White House said on Wednesday.
The United States has an important relationship with Pakistan which it endeavours to work on every day, the White House has said, a day after Islamabad summoned its top diplomat to protest against the drone strike that apparently killed the second top ranking Al Qaeda leader.
The White House has said that Shakil Afridi, the Pakistani doctor who helped the Central Invetigation Agency trace Osama bin Laden, was not working against Pakistan but the Al Qaeda and should not have been held.
Pakistan will soon reopen the ground lines of communication to Afghanistan, which were shut down last November following the death of 24 soldiers in a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation's strike, the White House has said. "We continue to work with Pakistan on this issue. We did not anticipate that the supply line issue was going to be resolved prior to the summit. And our teams continue to meet and we are making diligent progress," said White House Press Secretary Jay Carney.
Brushing aside Pakistan's protests, United States President Barack Obama has made it clear that they will again carry out special operations in that country like the one against Osama bin Laden if necessary to target high- profile terrorists.
Ruling out an apology to Pakistan for its unilateral military action against its "enemy number one" Osama bin Laden deep inside that country, the United States has said the critical mission could have been compromised if it had informed Islamabad about it.
The Obama administration hopes to get a treasure trove of information from the materials, including a computer hard drive and disks, recovered from the hideout of Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, who was killed in a United States military operation in Pakistan.
On Tuesday, Pakistan termed the US commando operation in Abbottabad that killed Laden an "unauthorised, unilateral action" without its knowledge. Besides, the White House said America has never been at war with Islam.
Obama plans to write checks to Treasury on a monthly basis, effective March 1, but will cut the first check in April.
The United States will not accept North Korea as a nuclear power, the White House asserted, as the Pentagon took steps along with its regional allies to thwart off any misadventure from Pyongyang. "The United States will not accept North Korea as a nuclear state, nor will we stand by while it seeks to develop a nuclear-armed missile that can target the United States," White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told reporters on Monday.
Insisting that Muammar Gaddafi has lost the legitimacy to rule, the United States has hoped that the military action against him by the international coalition would result in the 'brutal' Libyan leader ending his regime. "We believe that the Libyan people no longer want Gaddafi to remain in power as the leader of Libya," White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said. "We support a democratic transition, free and fair elections," he said.
The White House has welcomed the release of American Central Intelligence Agency contractor Raymond Davis, arrested by Pakistani authorities after he shot and killed two men in Lahore in January. His release ended one of the most serious diplomatic stand-offs between Islamabad and Washington in nine years of partnering in the fight against terrorism.
Economic boom in countries like India and China and unrest in other parts of the globe are some of the important factors.
The White House has urged India and its other allies and friends to help isolate Iran and put pressure on the Iranian regime to give up its nuclear weapons ambitions.
The President's main priority is to ensure that taxes don't go up on 98 per cent of Americans and 97 per cent of small businesses in just a few short days, White House Press Secretary, Jay Carney, said.
The White House has once again asked Pakistan to attend the upcoming crucial international meet on Afghanistan in Bonn.
Emphasising that focused efforts are needed to ensure economic growth and creation of jobs in US, the White House has said that necessary measures should be taken in this regard.
"We need to move quickly to look at what Syria can and should be in a post-Assad world, work with our partners, work with the opposition to help create that transition, because Assad's days are surely numbered," White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told reporters.
The Obama Administration is keen to ensure that India, China or Europe do not take lead in clean energy industries that are vital to the 21st century, a top White House official has said.
Al Qaeda's second-in-command Abu Yahya al-Libi has died in a US drone strike, the White House has confirmed, with a top Obama aide terming it as a major blow to the terrorist outfit.
The United States is looking into various options whether to make public the "gruesome" photos of Osama bin Laden's corpse as these pictures might inflame enemies' passions if released to prove the Al Qaeda chief's death. "It's fair to say that it's a gruesome photograph," White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said when asked why the Obama administration was reluctant to release the pictures of the last moments of bin Laden.
The White House has outrightly refused to negotiate with Al Qaeda for the release of its citizen, who was kidnapped by the terrorist outfit in Pakistan last year.
The United States on Thursday said it plans to shift to "support role" in Afghanistan by 2013 so as to complete the security transition to Afghan forces by 2014 even as it sought to play down President Hamid Karzai's order to pull out American troops from villages and confine them to bases.
The US on Wednesday rejected reports that it is abandoning the nomination of Indian-American Vivek Murthy as Surgeon General, saying his name was approved with bipartisan support.
President Barack Obama on Thursday called German Chancellor Angela Merkel and told her that the United States has not monitored her cellphone communication, a presidential spokesman said.
Biden, who arrived in India on Monday on a four-day maiden visit, held comprehensive talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
The United States on Friday exempted some countries, including India and China, from the tough Iranian sanctions act as they continue to reduce their dependence on Iranian oil.
The state visit of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff to the US next month has been postponed following the concerns being raised by Brazil with regard to the secretive surveillance programme of NSA as revealed by classified documents leaked by Edward Snowden.
The White House has warned lawmakers that tightening sanctions on Iran could push the US on a "march to war" and derail a diplomatic push to limit Tehran's nuclear programme.
Amid uproar in France over the revelation that the National Security Agency carried out extensive electronic surveillance there, United States President Barack Obama called up his French counterpart Francois Hollande and told that Washington has begun reviewing the way it gathers intelligence.
The United States is extremely disappointed on Russia giving temporary asylum to former Central Intelligence Agency contractor and national Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, adding that it is evaluating its ties with Moscow now, the White House said.
The White House Press Secretary said the impacts of climate change on weather are severe.
The White House denied reports that the US has threatened or is considering any physical threat to Snowden, 29, who is currently in Russia and has sought asylum in Ecuador, which is said to be his final destination from Moscow.
The United States has asked Taliban to put down arms and begin peace talks as it condemned the suicide attack on a popular Kabul restaurant that killed 21 people, including several foreign nationals.
Notwithstanding President Hamid Karzai's reluctance to sign the bilateral security agreement, the United States has said that though it is open to signing of the pact later in the year, the longer it takes the more challenging it will be to execute any mission post 2014 in Afghanistan.
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor said Republicans are the only ones who acknowledge the debt crisis and have repeatedly attempted to help reverse the dangerous spending trend in Washington.
US President Barack Obama and the Republican party leadership have decided to continue talks to find any possible deal to re-open government and raise the debt ceiling, but there was no immediate resolution in site to end the current impasse.
Ignoring diplomatic protocol, United States Secretary of State John Kerry had telephoned National Security Advisor Shivshankar Menon to discuss the row over the arrest of an Indian diplomat after he was told that his Indian counterpart Salman Khurshid was busy in Parliament.
After the disastrous launch of the Affordable Care Act website, Obama is looking to boost his tarnished popularity and credibility.
At least three persons were injured in a shooting incident at Los AngelesInternationalAirport - one of the busiest in the US - prompting authorities to evacuate two terminals and ground all planes, reports said.
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