Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said there is no favorite candidate of Pakistan in the Afghan elections. He said that Pak, US strategic dialogues would be started soon. Talking to senior journalists in Islamabad, he said that America has changed its focus from war on terror to Pakistans economic progress while operation against terrorists and help of IDPs has revived some confidence in the US about Pakistan. On the question of buying a hotel in Peshawar by the US, Shah Memood Qureshi said the government cannot stop the selling of the hotel as it is a private property. He rejected the news about the deployment of American Marines in the country.
