Anti-US protests: US military chief cancels Pakistan visit

Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey has canceled his trip to Islamabad, where he was to hold a private meeting with Pakistani counterpart General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani, due to continued wave of anti-US protests, the top US commander said. 

"I originally planned to go to Pakistan to meet with General Kayani, and because of some of the issues related to that film, he and I discussed postponing that visit, mostly so that I would give him the time to deal with the issues he was dealing with internally," Dempsey told reporters. 

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