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Summary Pak-US relations may be sour these days, but a new trade development could sweeten up things.
At least Pakistani Ambassador to US Hussain Haqqani believes so, after the first shipment of Pakistani mangoes arrived at O Hare International Airport. Ambassador Haqqani credited two years of strategic dialogue for the shipment. He said the mango trade will improve relations between the two countries.The fragrant chaunsa mangoes wont be in stores for a few weeks. Only a select crowd at the Palmer House Hilton got an early taste. Pakistani-American guests strolled the hotels ballroom sampling chilled mango chunks, mango ice cream, mango tarts and other delicacies.Farahnaz Ispahani, the wife of Haqqani and the Pakistan presidential spokeswoman, said. The soil in Pakistan produces the sweetest mangoes in the world and once Americans taste Pakistani mangoes in all their depth and flavors they ll never turn back. Theyll forget Alphonsos and any other mangoes.
