President Donald Trump on Monday said that Pakistan was helping the US in the Afghan peace process as he met Prime Minister Imran Khan at the White House for the first time in a meeting, which Islamabad hopes would reset the strained bilateral ties.
Khan, who was accompanied by Army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa, Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) chief Lt Gen Faiz Hameed and Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi among others, was greeted by Trump upon his arrival at the White House.
In his opening remarks, President Trump noted that the US is working with Pakistan to withdraw from Afghanistan, and does not want the US to be policeman in the region.
President Trump said that Pakistan was helping the US in the Afghanistan peace process. "I don't think Pakistan respected the United States" in the past, Trump said, but "they are helping us a lot now."