"Pakistan and the U.S. have an old friendship, and it's disappointing to hear that Mitt Romney brought this relationship down to one that is purely based on Pakistan being a country with 100 nuclear warheads and counting," said Naveed Chaudhry, an aide to President Asif Ali Zardari.
"This was a blow to the party but this was a political decision," said Zardari's advisor Naveed Chaudhry in an interview with CNN. (Naveed Chaudhry is not related to the Chief Justice.) "This was not a legal decision. We have reservations about this decision."