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Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani, Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mehmood Qureshi and Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani jointly called on President Asif Ali Zardari at the Aiwan-e-Sadr on Thursday. Matters relating to strategic dialogue with the United States and war against militants were discussed during the meeting. Earlier, the PM Gilani said that the forthcoming Pakistan-USA Strategic Dialogue needs to cover full spectrum of relationship to establish confidence of the people. He asked for mutually developing a periodic review mechanism/regime to monitor the decisions taken in the strategic dialogue so that there is visible impact in areas of relevance to ordinary people as well as efforts to fight terrorism. The PM was addressing the second session of the high level meeting to develop a comprehensive, coherent and well coordinated approach for the forthcoming Pakistan-USA strategic dialogue scheduled on March 24 in Washington. The meeting was held at the Prime Minister House.
