Overview

• Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif met President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Thursday in a closed-door session with Pakistan’s army chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, present.
• This is the first White House meeting between a U.S. president and a Pakistani prime minister since 2019.
• Officials signaled a focus on bilateral ties, trade, counterterrorism cooperation, and regional security issues including Afghanistan.
• The engagement consolidates warmer contacts after Trump hosted Munir in June and followed a July trade agreement that set a 19% U.S. tariff framework on Pakistani goods.
• The White House schedule showed Trump signing executive orders earlier in the day, including the possible finalization of a TikTok security deal.