"Dealing with Pakistan I don't enjoy that," Tillerson said in response to a specific query during a town hall with the State Department employees here.
His remark, without any further explanation, was in response to a question posed by a State Department employee who asked: "Is it fair to ask and say do you enjoy your job as Secretary of State?"
Today that's just not the case, he told his State Department colleagues.
"So we're engaged in very frank discussions with Pakistan over the concerns we have about their own stability and their future, and the threat they're under by allowing terrorist organisations to operate in their territory," Tillerson said.
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The top US diplomat said the two countries should find ways as to how they could work together to bring stability and peace to the whole region.
Earlier in his remarks, Tillerson referred to the new South Asia Policy as one of the key foreign policy highlights in the first year of the Trump administration.
Tillerson said that President Donald Trump took a very bold decision by asserting that the US will be in Afghanistan with its military presence and continue to fight terrorism and the Taliban on a conditions-based effort.
He, however, refused to give any time limit for the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan.
"The Afghan government has to continue to deliver on the needed reforms and create the conditions to have an inclusive government that allows for participation of all the ethnic groups in Afghanistan, including the Taliban.
"When the Taliban are ready to come to that negotiating table, there will be a place for them to participate in a future Afghan government," Tillerson said.
According to him, Trump's South Asia policy aims to deny any safe haven to terrorist organisations in the Afghanistan- Pakistan region.
The top American diplomat asserted that the policy could be achieved by "eliminating the safe havens"; bringing on board the groups fighting with each other, to get them involved in dialogues and creating the conditions for a reconciliation process within Afghanistan for peace.
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