ISLAMABAD: Pentagon chief Chuck Hagel visited Pakistan on Monday for talks as Washington seeks to defuse tensions over controversial United States (US) drone strikes and Islamabad’s role in Afghanistan.

In the first visit by a US defense secretary in nearly four years, Hagel flew from Kabul to Islamabad to meet Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and other top officials, including the country’s new army chief.

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