The seminar, organised jointly by the Wilson Centre, Washington, and the International Academy of Letters (IAL), USA, tried to explore how to promote US- Pakistan relations after the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan.
Addressing the seminar in Washington, Pakistan's envoy to US Masood Khan said, "It is important that the US restores -- for Pakistan -- Foreign Military Financing and Foreign Military Sales, suspended by the previous administration."
The annual State Department report released on Monday refers to several events that occurred in 2022, including former premier Imran Khan's Azadi March to protest his removal from office.
The US Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) added 37 entities to its blacklist for allegedly contributing to Russia's military and defence industrial base, supporting China's military modernisation, and facilitating or engaging in human rights abuses in Myanmar and
According to the 2021 Country Reports on Terrorism, the TTP uses the tribal belt along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border to train and deploy its operatives.
"Amid Pakistan's economic crisis and the Taliban's rule in Afghanistan, the Pakistani Taliban have re-emerged as an increasingly potent threat," warned the report, released in Washington on Tuesday by the US Institute of Peace (USIP).
According to the general secretary of the Exchange Companies Association of Pakistan, Muhammad Zafar Paracha, traders, and smugglers are bringing as much as USD 5 million across the border daily.
The Diplomat said the black market is dominated by the flow of US dollars across the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, which unifies the economic crises of the two countries.
The United States supports constructive engagement between India and Pakistan, however, the nature of the talks is for the two countries to decide, said the US State Department Spokesperson, Ned Price on Tuesday in response to a media query on the Kashmir issue.
The year 2022 has been alarming for Pakistan's religious minorities. The year started with a Sri Lankan national being lynched and his body set on fire by a mob in Sialkot.
The first pledge underlines Washington's desire to help Islamabad curb terrorist attacks from Afghanistan that have become a major threat for Pakistan.