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President Barack Obama will not visit Pakistan during his trip to Asia next month, but he is committed to a trip there in 2011, the White House spokesman said.The spokesman told that Obama is traveling to India, Indonesia, South Korea and Japan next month. Managing the complex US relationship with Pakistan, including Islamabad's role in the US-led Afghanistan war, is one of Washington's most difficult foreign policy challenges. President Obama committed that he will visit Pakistan in 2011 also welcomed Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari to Washington for a visit, the White House said. The United States has played a delicate balancing act, seeking to show Pakistan it seeks a relationship beyond cooperation on Afghanistan while also trying to broaden its ties with India, the world's largest democracy.
