"Pakistan’s own security and stability is tied to a successful outcome in Afghanistan and any steps that continue to build the relationship between Afghanistan and Pakistan, in our view, are very important", the State Department’s spokesperson Jen Psaki said during a daily media briefing here.

To a question she said that the US was aware, of course, that Pakistan’s Advisor to the Prime Minister on National Security and Foreign Affairs, Mr Sartaj Aziz visited Afghanistan this past weekend.

According to Geo News, without disclosing any specifics in terms of a date, she further said that the US Secretary of State John Kerry was likely to visit Pakistan shortly.