Pak PM likely to visit US in September

Pakistan Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi is expected to visit the United States in the third week of September to attend the UN General Assembly session, government sources said today.
The visit would come amid simmering tension with the US over its accusations that Pakistan provides safe havens to militants, who attack American troops across the border in Afghanistan.
The sources said Abbasi expectedly would meet senior US officials on the sidelines to discuss the bilateral ties and regional situation with special reference to Afghanistan in wake of the new Afghan strategy of the Trump administration.
Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif would accompany Abbasi on the trip. Asif had been invited by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to visit the US but he delayed it until Donald Trump announced the new Afghan policy.

It would be Abbasi's first visit to the US as prime minister after Nawaz Sharif was ousted in July.
Relations between Pakistan and US are tense and a scheduled visit by US Acting Assistant Secretary of State Alice Wells to Pakistan was postponed by Islamabad.