Overview

• Vice President J.D. Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio joined the closed-door meeting, which marked Sharif’s first White House visit and lasted roughly 80 minutes.
• Pakistan’s powerful army chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, sat alongside the prime minister, highlighting the military’s central role in Islamabad’s foreign and security policy.
• A senior U.S. State Department official said the two sides are working through counterterrorism cooperation as well as economic and trade issues.
• The meeting capped a week of UNGA diplomacy that included a brief Trump–Sharif encounter in New York and followed Munir’s earlier White House lunch this summer.
• Recent groundwork includes a July 31 trade deal setting a 19% U.S. tariff on Pakistani exports and U.S. interest in Pakistan’s energy and critical minerals, developments watched closely in New Delhi.