A top US State Department official visited Pakistan to review the progress made by Islamabad on regional security and stability and met Foreign Secretary Tehmina Janjua and other senior officials, but the meeting ended without any breakthrough, according to a media report on Tuesday.
The US Department of State’s Senior Bureau Official for the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs Ambassador Alice Wells visited Islamabad for meetings with Foreign Secretary (Tehmina) Janjua and other senior officials, a statement, issued late on Monday, by the US Embassy here said.
“In her meetings, she discussed the status of the United States’ South Asia strategy and efforts to make progress on regional security and stability,” it added. Wells was on a day-long trip to Islamabad to continue her talks in the wake of President Donald Trump’s new South Asia and Afghanistan policy, in particular Pakistan’s commitment in the war against terrorism.
Pakistan’s Foreign Office (FO) spokeperson, Mohammad Faisal only shared a picture of Janjua receiving Wells on the micro-blogging site ‘twitter’, but did not share any details of the meeting.
The two sides failed to make any headway, instead some new issues cropped up during the meeting which may further complicate the already strained US-Pakistan ties, the report said.
The another round of Pakistan-US talks aimed at getting Islamabad to fulfil Washington’s expectations, envisioned in its South Asia and Afghanistan policy, ended without any breakthrough, the Dawn reported.