U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to visit Pakistan in September in a sign of expanding bilateral relations, media outlets reported Thursday.
The White House or Pakistani officials have not publicly confirmed a report by Reuters which cited two Pakistani news channels in its news story.
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.
According to two Pakistani TV news channels, Trump would also visit India during September.
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.
