THIS refers to the report ‘2009: Nato officials bewildered by ill-prepared Zardari’ (May 21).

Those who take the time to read the piece in its entirety will see that President Asif Ali Zardari made an impassioned and strong case for Pakistan.

He clearly explained to his audience what Pakistan’s role had been and was as a front-line state in the war against extremism and about all the sacrifices Pakistan and its people had made.

To mock the democratically elected civilian president for not knowing the language of Nato is cynical and not useful.

Perhaps those Nato officials were used to President Zardari’s predecessor who was more martial and less democratic in his language and more conversant with military manners.

FARAHNAZ ISPAHANI MNA and Media Adviser to President Islamabad