Rice to visit Pakistan in mid-March
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is due to visit Pakistan, a frontline state in its global war against terrorism, in mid-March, an official said Saturday.
Rice is expected in Islamabad on March 17, a senior official of Pakistan's foreign ministry told AFP, but declined to comment further on her engagements.
The US Senate last year approved a 388-million-dollar budget which includes military aid to Pakistan and its war-torn neighbour Afghanistan.
For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. The allocation is designed to bolster the capabilities of Pakistan's armed forces in hunting down suspected Al-Qaeda members along the rugged Afghan-Pakistan border.
US officials believe Al-Qaeda mastermind Osama bin Laden and other key militants have been sheltering somewhere along the mountainous border between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
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