U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Pakistani leaders meeting Thursday that the United States can open a new chapter in the relationship between Washington and Islamabad are often irritable.
Islamic extremism, is expected in neighboring Afghanistan and Pakistan against U.S. drone attacks in war highlighted Kerry's newly elected prime minister Nawaz Sharif and the Pakistani powerful army chief Pervez Kayani 阿什法克帕尔General meeting.
Although this is the first visit as Secretary of State Warren Islamabad, he has a long history of dealing with Pakistan, as the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, former chairman. Sharif described him as "a wonderful friend," Kerry said, "I have visited (Sharif) to eat with his family and some of the fun."
Into a closed-door meeting, Sharif has called Kerry wife Theresa - Heinz - Kerry, who was detained last month after hospitalization.
"She has done relatively well," Kerry said.
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Sharif came to power, marking the first time in Pakistan's civilian government to complete its full five-year term of office, the transfer of power in democratic elections and elections. The country's military coup ousted civilian leaders in history.
"This is a historic transition, just happened," Kerry told the U.S. embassy employees. "No one should reduce it."
Kerry also discussed the rising anti-American sentiment in Pakistan, some unpopular U.S. drone attacks caused by Islamic extremists.
"I know that sometimes - sometimes very difficult, and sometimes you get a little bit of harassment or someone said, 'Why are you working for the Americans?" Kerry told the Pakistanis.
Traveling with the Kerry senior administrative officer, told reporters that while the relationship with Pakistan has grown sensitive to recent years, there is a reset those Sharif government relations and work together on major issues - terrorism, energy, regional stability, economic reform, trade prospects and investment. Officials speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized public discussion of Kerry's agenda.
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The United States hopes to help strengthen the civilian government in Pakistan, the military long has been the dominant role, and hoped Sharif against his country extremists attack rises.
The release of hundreds of prison inmates raised serious questions about Pakistan's ability to fight insurgency has raged for years, killing tens of thousands of breaking this week. Suspected Islamist militants killed at least 160 people in the first month of the new government in office. Sharif government has yet to articulate an alternative strategy.
The United States also hope that Pakistan will put pressure on the Afghan Taliban leaders and Afghan President Hamid Karzai's government to negotiate, to renounce violence, sever ties with the "base" organizations.
In neighboring Pakistan, Afghan officials requested removal of a safe haven for extremists in Pakistan to promote the Taliban to join the peace process. U.S. and Afghanistan said that if an attacker is allowed to continue, the region will never be stable. Pakistani officials say they do not control the Taliban, but the Karzai government is not convinced.
Drone strike is another point of contention.
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Washington says it needs at risk of attack armed UAVs, because the Pakistani government refused to allow them to participate in the military. Drone attacks in Pakistan argue violation of its sovereignty is a fresh, they have a wide range of anti-American sentiment in the country increased.
U.S. drone attacks against militants in Pakistan and limited strike has reduced the number of top targets. U.S. officials say these moves seem to have subsided now Pakistan's generals. However, some officials worried that the new civilian officials, including Sharif, who want to attack after the push.
Have been 16 drone attacks in Pakistan this year, in 2010, in 2011 and 4873 in 2012 compared to a peak of 122, according to the New America Foundation, a think tank headquartered in the United States
 



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