ISLAMABAD, Jan 27: Contrary to earlier reports that US Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker was summoned by the Foreign Office on January 14, a day after the US aerial strike in Bajaur Agency, it has now been established that he was not.

This has been confirmed by the US ambassador himself and officials at the foreign ministry.

It was not the Foreign Office but at the PM House that Foreign Secretary Riaz Mohammad Khan raised the matter with the US ambassador.

The ambassador had accompanied former US presidential candidate Senator John Kerry when the latter called on Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz. So it was on the margins of this meeting that the foreign secretary met the ambassador and lodged what has been officially branded as a “protest”.

Foreign ministry officials say that Ambassador Crocker was supposed to be summoned to the Foreign Office the same evening but this did not happen due to a scheduling problem.