{"id":76041,"date":"2018-08-19T16:34:07","date_gmt":"2018-08-19T11:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=76041"},"modified":"2018-08-19T16:34:07","modified_gmt":"2018-08-19T11:34:07","slug":"us-secretary-of-state-pompeo-likely-to-visit-pakistan-in-sept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=76041","title":{"rendered":"US Secretary of State Pompeo likely to visit\u00a0Pakistan in Sept"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>WASHINGTON, Aug. 19 (TNS)<\/strong>: United States (US) Secretary of State Michael Pompeo is likely to visit\u00a0Islamabad\u00a0in the first week of September for consultations with Prime Minister Imran Khan and his team on issues of mutual interests.<\/p>\n<p>Pompeo, who is expected to land in\u00a0Islamabad\u00a0on\u00a0September 5, will likely be the first foreign dignitary to meet the newly-elected prime minister after he took the\u00a0oath of his office\u00a0on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>It was reported that during his meeting with the Pakistani officials, Secretary Pompeo may \u201cfocus on two major issues: efforts to revive once close ties between the two states and\u00a0Pakistan\u2019s support for a US-led move to jump-starting the Afghan peace process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was further reported that Alice Wells, who heads the Bureau for South Asian Affairs at the State Department, may also accompany Pompeo.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, US officials had urged\u00a0Pakistan\u00a0to help end the Afghan war, adding that recent terrorist attacks in\u00a0Afghanistan\u00a0have not discouraged them from negotiating peace with some Taliban factions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; WASHINGTON, Aug. 19 (TNS): United States (US) Secretary of State Michael Pompeo is likely to visit\u00a0Islamabad\u00a0in the first week of September for consultations with Prime Minister Imran Khan and his team on issues of mutual interests. Pompeo, who is expected to land in\u00a0Islamabad\u00a0on\u00a0September 5, will likely be the first foreign dignitary to meet the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76041","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=76041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76042,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76041\/revisions\/76042"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}