Pakistan has said it had yet to decide which way it would vote on a draft United Nations Security Council resolution laying the groundwork for a war on Iraq.
A spokesman for the foreign ministry said US Assistant Secretary of State Christina Rocca had sought Pakistan's support for the US-British-Spanish draft resolution in meetings with officials in Islamabad on Thursday.
"Of course she asked for our support . . . naturally America would like to have as may votes [as possible]," he said.
Pakistan is one of the 10 non-permanent members of the 15-member UN Security Council, which held its first meeting on Thursday on the resolution saying that Saddam Hussein had failed to disarm.
Adoption of a resolution in the Security Council needs a minimum of nine votes in favour and no veto from its five permanent members, the United States, Britain, Russia, France and China.