Srinagar — U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday hosted Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif for talks at the White House, a meeting seen as a sign of improving relations between Washington and Islamabad after years of strained ties.

The visit, Sharif’s first to the White House as prime minister, comes just days after he and Trump held an informal exchange on the sidelines of the 80th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York. Sharif also participated in Trump’s multilateral session with leaders from eight Islamic-Arab countries, including Egypt, Indonesia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkiye, on strategies to end the war in Gaza.

Speaking with reporters ahead of the meeting, Trump praised both Sharif and Pakistan’s military chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, calling them “grea

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