Pompeo tries to shore up a rocky relationship in brief visit to Pakistan
by Shashank Bengali and Aoun Sahi, Los Angeles Times
Sep 05, 2018
3 minutes
ISLAMABAD - Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo used face-to-face meetings with Pakistani leaders on Wednesday to renew demands that they do more to stamp out Islamist militants and support a fledgling U.S. peace effort with the Taliban in Afghanistan.
In a six-hour visit to Islamabad, Pompeo and Gen. Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, tried to shore up a troubled relationship that has been further strained with the Trump administration's suspension of hundreds of millions
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