Pakistan cutting visa backlog: US
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Pakistan has cut by more than half a visa backlog affecting US officials and contractors needed to run American aid programmes aimed at combating extremism there, a State Department official said on Tuesday.
The United States and Pakistan were developing a “more cooperative, constructive relationship” in the…
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