The TOI correspondent from Washington: US President Donald Trump is meeting Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in the Oval Office on Thursday, advancing ties with a country he described in his first term as a terrorist safe-haven that has long conned America. The White House has listed Trump’s meeting with Sharif for 4.30 pm EST (2 am IST) after bilateral meetings and lunch with Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. The Pakistani prime minister buttonholed Trump on the sidelines of his meeting with eight Islamic-Arab countries in New York on Tuesday, and a 36-second video clip shared by Pakistan’s ministry of foreign affairs showed him emphatically making some point with his foreign minister Ishaq Dar by his side. Trump’s meeting with Pakistan’s civilian leadership comes a

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