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US War Secretary Chuck Hagel has travelled to Pakistan for talks about "security partnership and how to address common threats."

It is the first visit by a US official to Islamabad since four years ago, when Nawaz Sharif appointed a new Army chief of staff, Gen. Raheel Sharif, said Hagel's spokesman Carl Woog a day before the trip.

The US war secretary met with Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Monday discussing how to reduce rising tensions between the two countries over US drone strikes in northwestern Pakistan that have left thousands of civilians dead since 2004.

Pakistani authorities had blocked the US main supply route to Afghanistan due to angry public protests against civilian deaths caused by CIA drones.
Hagel also discussed the "common interest that the United States and Pakistan have in a stable Afghanistan." Last month during his visit to Kabul, Sharif pledged to help facilitate peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban.

Hagel arrived in Pakistan from neighboring Afghanistan where he met with top officials and the American troops, who are set to leave the Asian country by the end of 2014 if a security pact is not signed between the two sides.

Source: Agencies