Washington, March 27: FIRST she admitted a crush on David Miliband. And now Hillary Clinton has been very publicly flirting with the foreign minister of Pakistan.
The US secretary of state collapsed into giggles as if she were a schoolgirl during a press conference with Makhdoom Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Wednesday.
It came as they announced a “ new spirit of cooperation” between the two countries.
The pair seemed keen to bridge the gap between the podiums during a press briefing following their bilateral meeting at the department of state in Washington.
While it was clearly just water in her glass, Clinton’s fit of the giggles made it seem as if it was something stronger.
During the briefing, she said the US had opened a first- of- a- kind “ strategic dialogue” with Pakistan.
Clinton had earlier openly flirted with the British foreign secretary Miliband during meetings in October and at a Nato summit in December.
While the other foreign ministers in the room prepared for a discussion on the war in Afghanistan, the pair looked like a couple of overexcited teenagers.
There was shoulder rubbing, lots of eye contact and laughing, and at one stage Clinton seemed to be reaching down to give her neighbour a back massage.
Clinton, 62, spoke last year of her unlikely crush on Miliband, 44.
She told Vogue magazine that she liked his accent and added: “ Well, if you saw him it would be a BIG crush. I mean, he is so vibrant, vital, attractive, smart. He is really a good guy. And he’s so young!”
–Agencies