KABUL: Pentagon chief Chuck Hagel heads to Pakistan on Monday for talks as Washington seeks to defuse tensions over controversial US drone strikes and Islamabad's role in Afghanistan.
In the first visit by a US defence secretary in nearly four years, Hagel will fly from Kabul to Islamabad to meet Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and other top officials, including the country's new army chief.
Ties between Washington and Islamabad have been seriously strained over US drone strikes in Pakistan's tribal belt as well as Afghan Taliban sanctuaries inside Pakistan's borders.
"Secretary Hagel met with Prime Minister Sharif on his visit to Washington earlier this year and looks forward to continuing candid and productive conversations," Pentagon spokesman Carl Woog told reporters on Sunday.
The visit was announced as Hagel's deputies said Nato shipments out of Afghanistan through Pakistan would resume after the end of anti-drone protests.
In recent weeks, activists opposed to the drone raids forcibly searched trucks in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in a campaign to disrupt Nato supply routes to and from Afghanistan.
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