A planetary chain of protests headed by a mass rally in Copenhagen cranked up the heat on problem-plagued talks to build a pact to roll back climate change.

Some time back Pakistan Army Chief General Ashfaque Parvez Kayani demanded that "America gives Pakistan and its interests a consideration and consult us when they design a new Afghan policy". There is no reason to believe that President Barrack Obama ignored Islamabad before announcing the surge of another 30,000 American troops to Afghanistan. Nor is there any protest from Pakistan that its interests were not considered.