WASHINGTON:

US President Donald Trump on Thursday hosted Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif for talks at the White House in the latest sign of warming relations between Washington and the South Asian nuclear power.

Sharif was among top officials from eight Arab and Muslim countries who met with Trump on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly this week to discuss strategy on ending the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.

The two leaders discussed bilateral relations.

The prime minister was given a red-carpet welcome as he was arrived in Washington DC along with the Pakistani delegation to meet the US president.

Upon arrival at Andrews Air Base, the prime minister was welcomed on the red carpet by a senior US air force official.

The prime minister's motorcade left the airbase in the ring of US secu

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