Pak military chief Asim Munir to go to US this week, second time in 2 months: Report

This go to is seemingly a reciprocal journey, to attend a farewell occasion for US Central Command chief Common Michael E Kurilla in Tampa, Florida, Pakistani newspaper Daybreak reported citing sources. Kurilla was in Pakistan final month the place he was awarded the Nishan-e-Imtiaz, certainly one of Pakistan’s prime honours.

Area Marshal Munir was hosted by US President Donald Trump for a non-public lunch on the White Home in June.

That was one of many events the place Trump claimed to have brokered the ceasefire between India and Pakistan. Actually, he had praised Munir for it too.

India has insisted that its international coverage selections — together with the ceasefire — aren’t ruled by any international affect.

Relations between India and the US have since been tense additionally amid Trump’s imposition of commerce tariffs as much as 50% on India as “penalty” for doing enterprise with Russia — a transfer India has referred to as “unfair and unjustified”.

The Pakistan military, in the meantime, has rubbished rumours of Area Marshal Munir turning into the nation’s president by changing Asif Ali Zardari.

The American common, Michael Kurilla, whose farewell Munir goes to attend, had just lately bracketed India and Pakistan, saying the US wanted have a relationship with each in countering terrorism.

In his remarks throughout a listening to by the US Congress’ Armed Providers Committee, he described Pakistan as a “phenomenal accomplice” in counter-terrorism. That was in June, a month after India had pinpointed and attacked terror bases inside Pakistan and in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, following the April bloodbath in Pahalgam.