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Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. File | Photo Credit: AP
Mr. Shehbaz is in New York to attend the UN General Assembly session. He will briefly journey from New York to Washington to fulfill President Trump, The Express Tribune newspaper reported on Wednesday (September 24, 2025), citing diplomatic sources.
He will return to New York on the identical day to proceed his UNGA engagements, it added.
It would be the first assembly between the U.S. President and the Pakistani Prime Minister on the White House since July 2019, when then-Prime Minister Imran Khan travelled to Washington and met President Trump.
Mr. Trump’s successor, President Joe Biden, utterly ignored Pakistan throughout his tenure and by no means even talked to any of the prime ministers on the telephone, not to mention inviting them to the White House.
However, since President Trump took workplace in January, there was a dramatic and surprising shift within the Pakistan-U.S. relationship.
The upcoming Trump-Shehbaz assembly comes in opposition to the backdrop of a noticeable thaw in relations between Islamabad and Washington.
In June, Mr. Trump held a uncommon one-on-one assembly with Pakistan Army chief Asim Munir on the White House, a sign that the Biden administration’s frosty strategy had given approach to Mr. Trump’s extra transactional however open model of engagement with Pakistan.
Diplomatic observers see the Shehbaz-Trump huddle as a continuation of that reset.
“The optics of the army chief’s meeting in June were significant. This meeting institutionalises that opening,” a senior Pakistani official accustomed to the method instructed the paper.
Officials in Islamabad consider the assembly will give attention to bilateral ties, regional and worldwide points, together with Afghanistan, counterterrorism cooperation, and commerce alternatives.
Analysts, nevertheless, stated that whereas Trump seems eager to have interaction Islamabad, the reset stays tentative.
Published – September 24, 2025 05:37 pm IST
