Overview

• Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will briefly travel from New York, where he is attending the UN General Assembly, to Washington and return the same day.
• The meeting is scheduled in the Oval Office at 4:30 pm ET and is expected to be closed to media with no briefing afterward, according to reports.
• Pakistan’s army chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, and Deputy Prime Minister/Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar are reported to join the session.
• Officials expect discussions to cover bilateral ties and regional issues including Afghanistan, counterterrorism cooperation, and trade.
• This will be the first White House meeting between a U.S. president and a Pakistani prime minister since 2019, following a July trade announcement and June outreach to Pakistan’s military leadership.