Pakistan, USA to conduct high level discussions on disputes about terror
Leon Li
2018-09-06 10:32:30
ISLAMABAD - US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will hold talks with high Pakistani civilian and military leaders on Wednesday, officials and diplomatic sources said.
Sources familiar with the visit told Xinhua that Pompeo would lead his party in official talks with the Pakistani delegation led by Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi of the Foreign Office.
Van Pompeo is also expected to summon Prime Minister Imran Khan and the army leader of the country, General Qamar Javed Bajwa.
The visit comes at a time when bilateral relations are at odds and days after the United States announced the cancellation of $ 300 million in assistance to Pakistan about what the American claims is the "lack of cooperation" of the country with the South. -Asian strategy of President Donald Trump.
Qureshi strongly contested the claim to the cancellation of aid, and stressed that it was the money that Pakistan had spent on the war on terrorism from its own funds and that it should be repaid by Washington from the Coalition Support Funds (CSF).
The United States set up the CB in 2002, which is eligible to be used to repay coalition partners for logistical and military support to US military operations in support of counterterrorism efforts.
Washington had previously blocked 500 million US dollars in the CSF earlier this year, canceling a total of $ 800 million in Islamabad.
"We will listen to his (Pomepo) position and also share with him our position on how bilateral relations can be normalized," Qureshi told journalists in Islamabad on Sunday.
Sources familiar with the visit told Xinhua that Pompeo would lead his party in official talks with the Pakistani delegation led by Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi of the Foreign Office.
Van Pompeo is also expected to summon Prime Minister Imran Khan and the army leader of the country, General Qamar Javed Bajwa.
The visit comes at a time when bilateral relations are at odds and days after the United States announced the cancellation of $ 300 million in assistance to Pakistan about what the American claims is the "lack of cooperation" of the country with the South. -Asian strategy of President Donald Trump.
Qureshi strongly contested the claim to the cancellation of aid, and stressed that it was the money that Pakistan had spent on the war on terrorism from its own funds and that it should be repaid by Washington from the Coalition Support Funds (CSF).
The United States set up the CB in 2002, which is eligible to be used to repay coalition partners for logistical and military support to US military operations in support of counterterrorism efforts.
Washington had previously blocked 500 million US dollars in the CSF earlier this year, canceling a total of $ 800 million in Islamabad.
"We will listen to his (Pomepo) position and also share with him our position on how bilateral relations can be normalized," Qureshi told journalists in Islamabad on Sunday.
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