Trump Hails Pakistan’s Army Chief Munir as ‘Very Great Guy’

President Donald Trump praised Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and the head of the country’s army Asim Munir as great guys ahead of a White House meeting to strengthen ties amid cooling relations with India — Islamabad’s main rival.

“The Pakistan-US partnership would be further strengthened to the mutual benefit of both countries,” according to a statement by the Prime Minister Sharif’s office on Friday. The meeting was the latest in a series of high-level US engagements with Pakistan, as Trump presses India to scale back ties with Moscow and uses tariffs to pressure Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government.