The TOI correspondent from Washington: US President Donald Trump met Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif and Army Chief Asim Munir in the White House Oval Office on Thursday in a public embrace of a country he had derided as a deceitful terrorist haven for much of his political career, including during his first term. The White House did not release any details of the meeting, nor were there any statements or readouts, much less a press conference in the hours after the unusual engagement that included "Field Marshal" Munir, regarded as the country’s de facto ruler. But a clutch of photos released by the Pakistani government showed Sharif and Munir seated in the gilded Oval Office for talks that were said to have lasted 80 minutes, and later posing with a grinning Trump with his

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