US Republican Senator John McCain, who is on a rare trip to Pakistan, has called for better cooperation between Washington and Islamabad to fight what he calls a common enemy.
Speaking after a meeting with Pakistani Foreign Ministry officials on Monday, McCain hoped for more progress in the two countries’ joint efforts against Daesh and other extremist groups.
“We come back with a message that we have a common enemy in ISIS (Daesh),” McCain told Pakistan’s national PTV channel, adding that “we look forward to closer relations and resolving the differences we have.”
The chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee said such meetings would help “in confronting a common challenge.”
He then visited Miranshah, the capital of the restive North Waziristan region, which was overrun by militants from Taliban and the Haqqani network before the Pakistani military recaptured it in 2014.
The visit comes amid rocky relations between the US and Pakistan…