Getting your player ready...
ISLAMABAD — Political tensions over the case of a CIA contractor that have dogged U.S.-Pakistani relations for weeks appeared to ease Tuesday as President Asif Ali Zardari gave a speech suggesting he was ready to move beyond the issue and opposition lawmakers toned down a planned protest.
In a compromise that analysts hailed as a sign of Pakistan’s maturing democracy, opposition parties that had accused the government of cravenly yielding to U.S. pressure agreed to simply exit the legislative chamber, leaving Zardari free to calmly address supporters in a bland speech that never mentioned the Davis case.
