Staff Reporter
Islamabad
US Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Alice Wells has arrived in Pakistan on Sunday.
According to details, the US diplomat will remain in Pakistan from January 19 to January 22.
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Alice Wells flew from New Delhi, where she held talks with senior Indian officials on range of issues.
Wells, according to the Foreign Office spokesperson, she is scheduled to have a series of meetings with foreign, interior and finance ministry officials. She will also meet security authorities. The nature of her engagements in Islamabad suggests that the agenda is wide-ranging, covering bilateral issues to regional tensions.
The focus, nevertheless, will be on the imminent peace deal between Afghan Taliban and the US. The Taliban recently indicated that the insurgent group would reduce the level of violence leading to the signing of peace deal. Importantly, the news of truce by Taliban was first shared by Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi in Washington, where he had busy time engaging with senior Trump administration officials as well as US Congressmen.
