US suspends 'all high-level dialogue' with Pakistan

[Jan Klimkowski]

But the embassy in Islamabad rejected the claim made by Pakistani officials in an ABC news report that pressure to release Davis included a meeting between National Security Advisor Tom Donilon and Pakistan Ambassador to the United States Husain Haqqani in which Donilon threatened Haqqani with expulsion and the closure of U.S. consulates in Pakistan if Davis wasn't released last week.
"ABC News carried a story regarding a conversation in Washington between senior U.S. and Pakistani officials," said the statement, released by embassy spokeswoman Courtney Beale. "Although we are unable to discuss the substance of a private diplomatic meeting, U.S. Embassy Islamabad can state categorically that the description of the conversation in this report is simply inaccurate."
U.S. officials declined to specify which details in the story were inaccurate.

Ah - a non-denial denial.

If the Empire wants to up the ante still further, it can despatch Richard Armitage to threaten to "bomb the country (Pakistan) back to the Stone Age", as Colin Powell's pointman did in the immediate aftermath of 9/11.