Khan's visit to the US is also marked by protests by several ethnic and religious minorities of Pakistan, including Baloch, Sindhis and Mohajirs
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, who arrived in Washington on his maiden trip to the US, will meet Donald Trump at the White House on Monday, hoping to reboot bilateral ties that were hit after the US President publicly criticised Islamabad, cancelled military aid and asked it to do more on terror front.
While it's expected that President Trump will press the Pakistan PM to take "decisive and irreversible" actions against terrorist groups operating from Pakistani soil, what could have come as an embarrassment to Khan could be the cold reception he received on his arrival.
Reportedly, no US official on Saturday came to receive the Pakistan prime minister at the airport. Khan, who is staying at the official residence of the Pakistani Ambassador to the US, Asad Majeed Khan, was welcomed by his foreign minister, Shah Mehmood Qureshi.
A video shared by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) showed the Prime Minister deboarding the commercial flight and later being received by Qureshi. He also took people mover for leaving the airport. Reportedly, he was not accorded the due state protocol while he landed in America.
Khan's visit to the US is also marked by protests by several ethnic and religious minorities of Pakistan, including Baloch, Sindhis and Mohajirs.
The Baloch groups on Saturday started a mobile billboard campaign in America's national capital urging President Trump to help end "enforced disappearances in Pakistan". They also staged protests and put up banners highlighting atrocities in Balochistan at several key locations in Washington. More tension is likely to witness on the streets of Washington on Monday with protests planned outside the White House and near the Capitol Hill Arena by Baloch as well as Sindhi groups.
Meanwhile, a bipartisan group of 10 influential American lawmakers have asked President Trump to raise the issue of human rights abuses in Pakistan's Sindh province in his meeting with Khan.
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THE US-PAK QUID PRO QUO The fact that Pakistan PM Imran Khan is accompanied by his army chief Gen Qamar Jawed Bajwa, DG ISI, and advisor commerce, points to the likely subjects he will discuss with President Trump on Monday. Khan’s priority areas are likely to be resumption of military aid, US help for loans from the IMF and other Western-controlled financial organisations and most important of all, getting the US to help Pakistan’s removal from the FATF grey list. Although President Trump has been tough on Pakistan and cut military assistance to it, yet the US needs Islamabad’s help to broker peace in Afghanistan. Kulbir Krishan, former top Home ministry official
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