[DAWN] The United States and Pakistain resume talks next week after a three-year hiatus as they seek stability in often turbulent ties amid mutual concerns over Afghanistan's future.Pakistain and the United States started a "strategic dialogue" in 2010 to work through their complicated relationship, but the talks were quickly frozen due to repeated crises -- including over the secret 2011 US raid that killed the late Osama bin Laden
... who doesn't live anywhere anymore...
Secretary of State John F.
I was in Vietnam, you knowKerry
Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a
lucky hat,conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State...
, who announced a resumption of the talks during a visit to Islamabad in August, will hold the dialogue Monday in Washington with Sartaj Aziz, Prime Minister
Nawaz Sharif... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf...
's national security adviser.
A US official said that the talks would look at both security and economic cooperation and seek to build a "blueprint" for future ties.
"Having seen the highs and lows of this relationship," the official said on condition of anonymity, "both countries have put an enormous amount of effort into assiduously putting this relationship on firmer grounding over the last year and a half".