ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: The US ambassador to Pakistan Richard Olson held a meeting with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in Islamabad on Monday.
During the meeting, they discussed matters relating to Pak-US relations with particular reference to the upcoming visit of the US Secretary of State John Kerry to Pakistan.
The federal minister for finance Ishaq Dar and the special assistant to prime minister on foreign affairs Tariq Fatemi also attended the meeting.
The United States and Pakistan would hold a ministerial meeting of their bilateral Strategic Dialogue in Islamabad on January 14 at which John Kerry would lead his country’s delegation.
“The US Secretary of State John Kerry is visiting Pakistan this month for Pakistan-US Strategic Dialogue. The arrangements are being finalised,” the Foreign Office spokesperson Tasneem Aslam said at the weekly media briefing in Islamabad on Thursday.
Since the dialogue resumed in 2013, this would be the second ministerial-level meeting between the two countries.
The Pakistani envoy to the United States Jalil Abbas Jilani told media that the discussions would focus on how to advance bilateral engagement.
