Pakistan, America will hold talks to boost defense ties
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The Dawn newspaper reported that US State Department counselor Derek Chollet in an interview with the newspaper stressed the need to assist Islamabad in fighting terrorists.
Islamabad. Pakistan and the US will hold defense talks in Washington on Monday on various options to strengthen bilateral military and security ties. The Foreign Office gave this information in a statement here. The Monday-Thursday talks will be the second round of the Pakistan-US mid-level defense dialogue after the first round was held in Pakistan in January 2021, the statement said. It said, “The inter-agency delegation to Pakistan, led by the Chief of the General Staff, will include senior officials from the Ministry of External Affairs, the Joint Staff Headquarters and the headquarters of the three services.
The US multi-agency team will be represented by the Office of the Deputy Secretary of Defense.” It said that relations between the two countries have improved in the recent past and the defense dialogue is a manifestation of this. The Dawn newspaper reported that US State Department counselor Derek Chollett in an interview with the paper stressed the need to assist Islamabad in fighting the terrorists who recently stormed inside a mosque in Peshawar’s Police Lines compound. More than 80 people were killed. It has been said in the news that Cholet, who is doing special diplomatic work for the US Secretary of State, is going to come to Islamabad soon to hold talks on several issues.
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