US President Donald Trump kept Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif waiting for nearly an hour before their meeting at the White House on Thursday, even as the talks were billed as a sign of improving ties between Washington and the South Asian nuclear power.

Sharif was one of eight senior officials from Arab or Muslim-majority countries who met with President Trump on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly this week, joining talks focused on finding a strategy to end the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. Shehbaz Sharif, Pakistan's prime minister, prior to a meeting with US President Donald Trump, not pictured, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, Sept. 25, 2025. The meeting will be the first time Trump has hosted Sharif at the White House since th

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