(CNN) -- Pakistan's prime minister urged Afghan government officials to look for other partners to ally with beyond the United States in a meeting earlier this month, and suggested it seek closer ties with China, a source close to the Afghan government told CNN. But Afghan sources disagree on how strongly the Pakistanis were trying to push their neighbors, and there is no indication from either source CNN spoke to about the Afghan government's receptiveness to the idea. At the meeting between senior Afghan and Pakistani officials April 16 in Kabul, Afghanistan, Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Gilani urged the Afghans to draw closer to Pakistan and to China, disengaging with what he depicted as a weakened United States, according to the source close to the Afghan government.
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The meeting was held in April in Kabul
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The source says Pakistan's prime minister suggested closer ties to China
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Tensions have been high between Washington and Islamabad in recent months
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"It tells more about relations between the U.S. and @placeholder and how they have hit rock-bottom," the source said, than it does about Pakistan-Afghan relations.
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