Donald Trump has assured the Pakistani leadership that he would visit the country "soon", Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said on Wednesday though the US President appeared to parry a question whether his planned trip to India would include a stopover in Islamabad.
Qureshi's statement came after President Trump and Prime Minister Imran Khan held a bilateral meeting on Tuesday on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum (WEF) here in the Swiss ski resort.
"US President Donald Trump has assured us that he will soon visit Pakistan," Geo News quoted Qureshi as saying in a statement.
But when a reporter posed a question to Trump prior to his meeting with Khan, the US President appeared to parry her query.
"Mr. President, when you head out to India, will you also visit Pakistan?" the reporter asked.
Trump said: "Well, we're visiting right now, so we won't really have to."
Meanwhile, the Pakistan foreign minister said the Khan-Trump meeting, the third between the two leaders in less than a year, was "very productive."