US - Pakistan talks

PAKISTAN: Visiting US generals will Wednesday hold the first talks in months with Pakistan’s army chief in a further sign that the troubled alliance between the two countries is getting back on track.

The visit by General James Mattis, the head of US Central Command, and General John Allen, the US commander of NATO troops in Afghanistan, is the first since US air strikes killed 24 Pakistani soldiers last November.

The raid prompted Pakistan to close its Afghan border crossings to NATO supplies and evict US personnel from an airbase reportedly used as a hub in America’s drone war against Taliban and Al-Qaeda militants on Pakistani soil.AFP