"Right now, I would like to think we will be successful," Mattis said. "Pakistan has lost more troops in this fight against terrorist than nearly any country out there. And yet at the same time, as you know, there's been some parsing out where some terrorists have been allowed safe havens. It will start with assistant secretaries coming out of Washington and the National Security staff members going into Pakistan soon followed by the secretary of state," he said. "I will go in and we have (NATO) secretary general Stoltenberg's very clear support for this in his advocacy as the secretary general of NATO.

Source: Times of India October 05, 2017 15:09 UTC