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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nNational Security Advisor HR McMaster took an unannounced trip to Pakistan this week according to AFP<\/a>;<\/p>\n At his previous stop in neighbouring Afghanistan he suggested Washington may take a stronger line with Islamabad, for years seen as an unreliable US ally.<\/p>\n A statement by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s office said McMaster had “assured the Prime Minister that the new administration was committed to strengthening bilateral relations and working with Pakistan, to achieve peace and stability in Afghanistan and in the wider South Asian region.”<\/p>\n […]<\/p>\n “As all of us have hoped for many, many years, we have hoped that Pakistani leaders will understand that it is in their interest to go after these groups less selectively than they have in the past and the best way to pursue their interest in Afghanistan and elsewhere is through diplomacy, not through the use of proxies that engage in violence,” McMaster said in an interview with Afghanistan’s Tolo News Sunday.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n McMaster’s trip is overshadowed by Vice President Pence’s trip to South Korea <\/a>and the demilitarized zone, but since there’s shooting war going on in Afghanistan and Pakistan, it’s still pretty important.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"