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Pakistani Channels Retract False Claims of Trump Islamabad Visit

No Pakistan trip is planned, prompting Pakistani channels to retract their reports.

US White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Thursday said that Donald Trump will visit Scotland from July 25-July 29.
Pakistani media reported that Donald Trump would visit Pakistan in September.
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Overview

  • Geo News and ARY News issued apologies and withdrew their reports after broadcasting unverified claims of a September visit to Islamabad.
  • Pakistan’s foreign office stated it had no knowledge of any presidential trip, and the White House confirmed no Pakistan stopover is scheduled.
  • Had it been real, the visit would have been the first by a U.S. president to Pakistan since George W. Bush’s 2006 stopover.
  • Some outlets had also speculated that Trump’s itinerary would include a visit to India, but no official South Asia tour has been confirmed.
  • Buckingham Palace has formally announced Trump’s state visit to the United Kingdom from September 17 to 19 as his only mid-September foreign engagement.