Pak seeking to reboot US ties

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Pakistan is seeking to reboot ties with the US, end the “stalemate” of last few years and “remove ambiguities”, visiting Finance minister Ishaq Dar has said ahead of his meeting with a senior member of the Trump administration.

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Days at White House Nawaz Sharif told The Wall Street Journal he would also ask “common friend”, the US, to settle the Kashmir issue, in an attempt to seek third-party mediation rejected by India.

“There seems to be a little bit of a stalemate in the last couple of years,” the minister told the daily ahead of his meeting with US national security adviser H R McMaster. “We need to remove any ambiguities that we have between each other as friends.”

US-Pakistan relations have been in a downward spiral in recent years starting roughly around May 2011, when al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden was found hiding just miles from an elite military school in Abbottabad. Ties have since been hit by one crisis after another, leading to erosion of support for Pakistan.