Pakistani PM to visit Washington this month

Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will visit Washington this month at the invitation of the U. S. President Barack Obama, state radio reported on Sunday.

During his visit, the prime minister will meet President Obama, his cabinet members and foreign policy makers, Radio Pakistan reported.

The exact dates of the visit are being discussed by the two sides, officials said.

The U.S. National Security Adviser Susan Rice had formally extended the invitation during her visit to Pakistan in August.

Sharif led the Pakistani delegation at the UN General Assembly last month.

Pakistan's ambassador to the United States Jalil Abbas Jilani has said in reported remarks that relations between Pakistan and the United States are now much stable as compared to the past.

"These relations would grow further by the upcoming visit of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to the United States," he told Convention of Pakistani-American Community in Washington.

Jilani said the United States is helping Pakistan in war on terror by providing necessary precision strike technology as well as in the rehabilitation of displaced people from the tribal regions. Endi