Islamabad, Sept. 17 (ANI): Pakistan Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will discuss revival of strategic dialogue and mutual understanding on drone attacks, during a meeting in Washington this week.
According to official sources, the two issues - resumption of the stalled strategic dialogue between the two countries and the drone strikes - were important for both countries and would certainly be discussed, reports the Daily Times.
Sources in the Pakistan Foreign Office said the issue of drone strikes would be discussed at the highest level with the U.S. officials.
The U.S. Embassy in Islamabad confirmed that talks on resumption of strategic dialogue would be held between Pakistani and US officials when Khar would be in Washington this week.
The Foreign Office has already officially announced that Khar will pay an official visit to the U.S. from September 18-22. She would later proceed to New York to join a delegation led by President Asif Ali Zardari to participate in the forthcoming United Nations General Assembly session.
During the Washington visit, Khar would hold bilateral meetings with Clinton, National Security Adviser Tom Donilon, Trade Representative Ron Krik and other senior officials.
The last round of the strategic dialogue between the two countries was held in October 2010 in Washington. But after that a number of incidents like the Raymond Davis issue, raid in Abbottabad, Salala attack, which killed 24 Pakistani soldiers, caused deterioration in the ties between the two countries.
This year after resumption of NATO supply, which was suspended after the Salala incident in November last year, there were rumours that the dialogue would resume soon.
Officials on both sides say the stalled process of dialogue would be restarted to make development on important civil and security areas, including economy and trade, energy, defence, security, strategic stability and non-proliferation, with law enforcement and counter-terrorism being on the top. (ANI)
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