The White House on Thursday dismissed reports that President Donald Trump is scheduled to visit Pakistan later this year, saying no such trip is planned at the moment.
“A trip to Pakistan has not been scheduled at this time,” a White House official said.
The White House comments came after reports, citing two Pakistani TV news channels, said Trump was likely to visit Pakistan in September before his trip to India.
The reports emerged as Washington and Islamabad have seen an upswing in the bilateral relationship.
George W Bush was the last U.S. president to visit the key South Asian country nearly two decades ago.
Bush’s meeting with Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf took place in March 2006 in Islamabad, when Islamabad was a major partner in the U.S.-led war on terror.
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Pakistan remains a major United States’ non-NATO ally, although relations between the two countries shrank after the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, where it engaged in the longest American war in the wake of September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
The U.S.-Pakistan have improved considerably in the last few months, with President Trump hosting Pakistan’s Army Chief Gen Asim Munir at the White House in an unprecedented event, reserved for top elected leaders.
The US Central Command last month hailed Pakistan as a “phenomenal” counterterrorism partner after Islamabad captured an Afghan militant for his suspected involvement in perpetrating an attack on American forces during the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021.
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President Trump and chief American diplomat Marco Rubio also had discussions with Pakistan at the height of Iran-Israel conflict last month.
In May, Trump mediated the Pakistan-India conflict and announced a ceasefire between the two nuclear-armed rivals.
Following his mediatory role, Pakistan also nominated him for Nobel Peace Prize for 2026.
