United States and Pakistan to hold talks next week

Islamabad, Mar 3 The United States and Pakistan will hold talks in Washington D.C. one week from now in the midst of the cold ties between the two nations as of late, as indicated by authorities.

Senior authorities of Pakistan's foreign ministry were cited by The Nation as saying that Foreign Secretary Tehmina Janjua's visit to the United States from March 6 to 8, is gone for defusing the pressures between the two sides and finding a "common ground".

An authority said: "She will meet senior authorities in Washington going for enhancing the Pak-US ties."

The authority added that Islamabad was prepared to demonstrate its adaptability to keep the further souring of ties with Washington D.C.

Relations between the two sides crumbled after US President Donald Trump had said in his tweet on January 1 that his nation was suspending military aid to Pakistan, since it was doing little to handle terrorism in the region.

"The United States has stupidly given Pakistan in excess of 33 billion dollars in help in the course of the most recent 15 years, and they have given us only lies and duplicity. They give place of refuge to the fear mongers we chase in Afghanistan, with little help. No more!", President Trump wrote on the micro-blogging site.

As per The Dawn, the US has guaranteed Pakistan that it would not like to separate its ties with the last mentioned. Pakistan has expanded its "wholehearted help" to the US-supported Afghan offer of peace converses with the Taliban.

Janjua's visit to the US comes after Pakistan Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif had made it clear that Islamabad would not sacrifice its interest for the sake of Washington D.C.

Asif added that Pakistan would frame its outside arrangement, in the national interests of the nation. He likewise included that if the US had needed peace in the district, at that point it should audit its South Asian strategy on terrorism and peace.

A month ago, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) examined a US-supported determination to put Pakistan on the terrorist financing watch-list.

Pakistan's Foreign Office also affirmed for the current week that the nation would be incorporated back in the "dim rundown" for dread financing following three years.

Lisa Curtis, the Senior Director for South and Central Asia at the National Security Council of the US touched base in Islamabad this week and held converses with Janjua and Pakistan Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal on general ties between the two nations.

The two sides required the creating of supportable peace in Afghanistan and worried on measures expected to stop human trafficking in the district.

Curtis also went to Islamabad in October a year ago and met with different Pakistani officials. The two sides had consented to the basic goal of taking out fear mongering.

She held gatherings with Janjua and Pakistan armed force boss General Qamar Javed Bajwa.