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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Australia China India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam Clinton arrives in Pakistan for talks AFP - 2 hours 13 minutes ago Send IM Story Print ISLAMABAD (AFP) - – US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Pakistan Sunday for strategic talks aimed at bolstering bilateral ties and securing firmer support for the war in Afghanistan. Clinton is due to hold meetings on Monday with high-level political and military figures to further a "strategic dialogue", and announce details of a huge aid deal aimed at chipping away at anti-American sentiment in Pakistan. The Secretary of State flew into Islamabad ahead of evening talks with Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and President Asif Ali Zardari. The aid package to be announced on Monday will be focused on water, energy and health projects, a senior US official said, part of a five-year 7.5 billion-dollar aid package approved by the US Congress last year. Clinton's visit comes ahead of her trip to Afghanistan on Tuesday for a major international donor conference, and as Washington continues to push Islamabad for further steps to rid its western border of Islamist militants. The United States has long voiced concern that elements of Pakistan's powerful military and intelligence service were supporting Taliban insurgents, despite the government's public anti-terror stance. But a government adviser travelling with Clinton, Vali Nasr, said a renewed and deeper engagement between the two countries had yielded greater trust on shared security issues. President Barack Obama's administration has promised to engage more deeply with Pakistan, which has long seen Washington as interested only in securing its military cooperation in the fight against the Taliban and Al-Qaeda. Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi will meet Clinton on Monday to reconvene the strategic dialogue started during his visit to Washington in March. Since March, 13 working groups covering topics ranging from development to defence have been set up to find areas for possible cooperation, and their progress will be reviewed by Clinton and Qureshi. The US Special Representative for Pakistan and Afghanistan Richard Holbrooke said the dialogue was delivering important changes to the US-Pakistan relationship. "The evolution of the strategic dialogue and the fact that we're delivering is producing a change in Pakistani attitude, first in the government, and gradually, more slowly in the public opinion," Holbrooke said. "This change is of strategic importance because it's enabling us to get to move forward on our additional efforts on counter-terrorism and in terms of working together in the tribal areas." In a statement from his ministry, Qureshi said the new visit "would help give further impetus to the Pakistan-US partnership" and welcomed US engagement in development projects. A senior US official speaking on condition of anonymity said closer ties with Pakistan's powerful army chief General Ashfaq Kayani were helping in the struggle against the militant Haqqani network, one of the toughest foes faced by foreign forces in Afghanistan. "The amount of engagement we have with General Kayani... is unprecedented. We feel that we're making some slow but steady forward movement (on Haqqani)," the official said. Clinton lauded talks in March as a "new day" for relations between the United States and Pakistan, which floundered in the wake of the Cold War as the Western superpower distanced itself until the September 11, 2001 attacks. Pakistan and the United States had been allies throughout the Cold War years as both helped arm Islamic insurgents who ousted Soviet troops from Afghanistan in 1989. "We had a long tradition of being in Pakistan providing assistance, then leaving and then coming back," said Rajiv Shah, administrator of US international aid agency, USAID. "We've made a very clear commitment that we are there for the long term in terms of civilian assistance... our commitment is broad and deep, we won't do what we did in the past," the aid official told journalists travelling with Clinton. 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