{"id":14045,"date":"2017-08-16T17:50:59","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T12:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=14045"},"modified":"2017-08-16T17:52:01","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T12:52:01","slug":"us-high-level-military-delegation-met-top-brass-of-pak-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=14045","title":{"rendered":"US high level military delegation met top brass of Pak army"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ISLAMABAD, August 16 (TNS):<\/strong>\u00a0 Lieutenant General Michael Garrett, Commanding General of United States Army Central Command, led a six-member delegation on a three-day visit to Pakistan this week.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement of ISPR released on Wednesday, this is LTG Garrett\u2019s first visit to Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>LTG Garrett and the delegation met with the Pakistan Army\u2019s Chief of General Staff, the Director General of Military Training, and the Director General of Military Operations at the Army General Headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>LTG Garrett also met with the Director General of Joint Staff and Director General of Joint Warfare and Training to discuss operations, training, and other areas of military cooperation between the United States and Pakistan.\u00a0 LTG Garrett also visited the National Counter Terrorism Training Centre in Pabbi, Punjab province.<\/p>\n<p>While at the training center, the center\u2019s director briefed the delegation on Pakistani efforts to train soldiers to fight terrorist groups.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was my distinct honor to visit Pakistan,\u201d said LTG Garrett.\u00a0 \u201cThis visit is significant in continuing to build the relationship between our two militaries and countries, one of our key partnerships in the region.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Army Central Command engages with Pakistan\u2019s military leadership and organizations primarily through military-to-military information exchanges, regional symposia, and multilateral and bilateral exercises.\u00a0 These events allow both countries to build relationships necessary to advance counterterrorism efforts in the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD, August 16 (TNS):\u00a0 Lieutenant General Michael Garrett, Commanding General of United States Army Central Command, led a six-member delegation on a three-day visit to Pakistan this week. According to a statement of ISPR released on Wednesday, this is LTG Garrett\u2019s first visit to Pakistan. LTG Garrett and the delegation met with the Pakistan Army\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[118,589],"class_list":["post-14045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad","category-national","tag-islamabad","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14046,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14045\/revisions\/14046"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}