No Benazir meeting with Rice, Rocca

The upcoming Rice/Bhutto meeting has been in the news big time in Pakistan, so this vague new report seems very odd.

No Benazir meeting with Rice, Rocca

By Khalid Hasan

Saturday, March 05, 2005

WASHINGTON: Benazir Bhutto, contrary to reports, is not due to meet US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice or even Assistant Secretary for South Asia, Christina Rocca, a senior State Department official told Daily Times on Friday.

He said no such meeting had been requested or scheduled. However, Ms Bhutto had an appointment to meet Steve Engelken, one of the directors in the State Department’s South Asia bureau who is responsible for Pakistan. This meeting, which was to take place on Thursday, was cancelled by the PPP chairperson for reasons unknown.

Ms Bhutto, who has been here since the weekend, was due to meet certain South Asia experts at a number of Washington think tanks on Friday. She is also being hosted at a private luncheon by Sen Akbar Khawaja on Saturday. Later in the afternoon, she will meet the Pakistani press at the residence of Dr Javed Manzur.

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_5-3-2005_pg7_3

I thought she ROCKED because SHE TOLD IT LIKE IT WAS... Maybe CONDOLEEZZAAAAAAAAA, just like her MASTER, el señor arbusto, DOESN'T LIKE TO HEAR IT LIKE IT IS!!! I am sure Benazir still rocks!

it sure seems they cancel a lot of meetings and keep changing Condi's schedule a lot.

It sounds like the right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing and that the DOS is devolving into chaos. Why am I not surprised?

She sure is doing an impressive job so far...