The meeting will discuss Trump's anti-Pakistan statement, formulating the strategy to tackle the challenges can be faced after this new controversy, The News said.
Tillerson: Pakistan must demonstrate its desire to partner with US
Pakistan must demonstrate its desire to collaborate with the US in its fight against terrorism, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said last month.
In an op-ed published in The New York Times, Tillerson reiterated what the Trump administration has been saying about Pakistan for the past several months now after President Donald Trump announced his South Asia policy in August.
Trump, while announcing his South Asia policy, had criticized Pakistan for not doing enough to combat terrorism.
"Pakistan must contribute by combating terrorist groups on its own soil. We are prepared to partner with Pakistan to defeat terror organizations seeking safe havens, but Pakistan must demonstrate its desire to partner with us," Tillerson said.
"A commitment to stop Islamist terrorism and extremism also motivated the administration's decision to adopt a new South Asia strategy, which focuses on Afghanistan. That country cannot become a safe haven for terrorists, as it was in the days before the September 11 attacks," he wrote as he summarized up his key diplomatic accomplishments in the first year.
'Time for Afghanistan and US to do more for Pakistan'On December 28, Director General of Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor said: "It is time Afghanistan and the US do more for Pakistan."
Referring to the US demands to act against the alleged presence of terrorist elements in Pakistan, Maj Gen Ghafoor clarified again that: "No organized infrastructure of any banned organization is present in Pakistan. We have fought an imposed and imported war twice in Pakistan and now we cannot do any more for anyone.
"Whatever we are doing, and we will do, is solely for the people of Pakistan. The aid we received (from the US) was reimbursement for the support we gave to the coalition for its fight against Al Qaeda. Had we not supported the US and Afghanistan, they would never have been able to defeat Al Qaeda," he added.
"There are no facilitators [of terrorist groups] in Pakistan and we have gone a long way towards supporting peace in the region," Maj Gen Ghafoor insisted, reiterating Pakistan's stance on the US's repetitive demand for the country to "do more".
Discussing measures taken by Pakistan to stop cross-border infiltration of terrorists, Ghafoor said: "We have started the construction of forts and posts on the Afghan border for effective border management -- what more does the US and Afghanistan want from us?"
"No country is more interested in Afghan peace than us, as we know that peace there [Afghanistan] means peace in Pakistan," the DG ISPR stressing, adding that the US needs to check India's role in the Afghan region.
"No amount of coercion can work -- it is only trust-based cooperation that can bring enduring peace to the region," he said.
"What kind of friends are we that we are being given notices [by the US]?" he asked, adding that while Pakistan Army was willing to work with its friends, it cannot compromise on its respect.
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