New Delhi, Dec 3: Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is sending an envoy to the United States to meet Donald Trump’s transition team. Pakistan PM’s special assistant for foreign affairs, Tariq Fatemi will visit the States and meet Trump’s transition team and according to a report in Dawn, he will meet officials of the outgoing Obama administration as well. Also Read - Trump says no rush to see North Korea denuclearize

Pakistan’s visit is in response to Donald trump’s setting up a provisional team, encouraging foreign leaders and officials to visit his headquarters in New York for familiarisation meetings before he takes oath in January. Also Read - US discusses potential missile defence cooperation with India

A few days back Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif called up U.S. President Donald Trump to congratulate him on his victory in the polls. Reportedly Trump in the call expressed his desire to continue the productive relationship between the U.S and Pakistan. According to a statement issued by the Pakistan PM office, Trump said that Pakistan is a “fantastic” country with “fantastic” people and he would love to visit Pakistan as President. However, the Trump transition team clarified that though the President-elect had a conversation with the Pakistan PM on Wednesday, but it lacked the “flowery language” used in the statement issued by Pakistan PMO. Also Read - Pompeo in reassurance mission to Iraq over US Syria pullout plans

Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United States, Jalil Abbas Jilani has confirmed to Dawn, that Tariq Fatemi will indeed visit the United States to meet Donald Trump’s transition team and the outgoing team of Obama administration.

Donald Trump who was largely criticised world wide for his racist and anti-Islamic comments during his Presidential campaigns, seem to have taken a U-turn in many of his comments already. While the U.S has always been an ally of Pakistan, and in many issues do not agree with India, what will really be important in Pakistan-U.S relations and Indo-U.S relations is how Trump maintain that harmony which was to some extent possible during the Obama administration. In that scenario, will this early visit to meet Trump be any fruitful for Pakistan? Only time will tell.