NEW DELHI: India will host US deputy secretary of state John Sullivan this month for what will be the first high-level bilateral visit from either side since US President Donald Trump’s controversial comments on the J&K issue during Pakistan PM Imran Khan ’s recent visit to the US and the reported resumption of US military assistance to Pakistan.Pakistan is likely to figure prominently in Sullivan's meeting with foreign minister S Jaishankar. India on Thursday said it had strongly protested both here and in Washington US military assistance to Pakistan. Sources said the US envoy was summoned for the purpose.``We have expressed grave concern over it. The US side has told us that the proposed sale does not indicate any change in the US policy of maintaining a freeze in military assistance to Pakistan,’’ said MEA spokesperson Raveesh Kumar.Kumar said the US had publicly stated that the proposed sale was intended to enable the US to continue technical and logistics support services to assist in the oversight of the operations of F-16 aircraft in Pakistan's inventory.Sullivan will start his visit to India on August 17, ToI has learnt. While his visit is for a forum which seeks to promote US-India strategic partnership, Sullivan is scheduled to have meetings with foreign minister S Jaishankar and possibly NSA Ajit Doval too. Sullivan has been quoted as saying in the past that the US would ``hold Pakistan accountable for its failure to deny sanctuary to militant proxies."The fact that the US announced its decision to approve $125 million technical and logistics support for Pakistan F 16s shortly after Khan’s visit, described as a big success by Islamabad, exacerbated India’s worries over Trump’s explicit and unsolicited offer of mediation in the Kashmir issue.Trump, in fact, had gone on to declare that PM Narendra Modi had himself asked him to mediate when he met him on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Osaka. This was denied vehemently by India, leading to a clarification by the State Department that the US still regarded Kashmir as a bilateral issue. India said after the clarification that it was time to ``move on’’ only to find days later that the US had resumed military help to Islamabad.Agency reports said last week that the Pentagon had notified the Congress of its decision to approve military sales worth $125 million that would result in the monitoring of the F-16 fighter jets of Pakistan.