Nawaz Sharif meets US Secretary of State Kerry

Today's discussions covered a broad range of domestic and regional issues including peace and security, counter-terrorism cooperation, collaboration on Pakistan's energy sector, increasing bilateral trade and investment and the common interest of a secure, stable Afghanistan, it said. 

“Both sides agreed on the importance of our continued counterterrorism cooperation, and that extremism is countered in part by opportunities arising from greater economic stability.

“To that end, the US, Pakistan's largest trading partner, remains committed to an economic relationship increasingly based on trade and investment,” the statement said. 

Meanwhile, the Obama administration has requested the US Congress to resume the security assistance to Pakistan, which now stands at 305 million US dollars for fiscal year 2014, a drop of 35 per cent as compared to the 2012 fiscal. 

The drop is because the Administration has not asked for a renewal of temporary Pakistan Counterinsurgency Capability Fund (PCCF), which was started in the year 2009, a senior administration official told PTI.