PM calls for US investment in Pakistan at Trump meet

Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif invited American companies to invest in the country during a meeting with US President Donald Trump at the White House that also focused on how to end to the war in Gaza, his office said on Friday.

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Shahbaz, along with Chief of Army Staff Field Marshal Asim Munir, met Trump on Thursday, in a further sign of warming relations with the United States, which had been frozen under the previous US administration.

In a statement by the Prime Minister's Office issued after the meeting shortly after midnight Pakistan Time, Shahbaz was quoted as saying that President Trump's bold and decisive leadership had played a key role in brokering the Pakistan-India ceasefire, helping to avert what he described as a “major catastrophe” in South Asia.

The Pakistani prime minister earmarked the agriculture, technology, mining and energy sectors for investment from US companies, his office said in a statement. Trump previously called for American companies to explore for oil in Pakistan.

Shahbaz, who was flanked by Field Marshal Asim Munir at the rare meeting, also thanked President Trump for the tariff arrangement that was concluded between Pakistan and the United States earlier this year.