<p>The United States will allow Pakistan to rejoin a military training program suspended two years ago when President Donald Trump froze security aid to the country.</p>.<p>Resuming the program, which represents only a part of the halted aid, is one sign of warming relations between Washington and Islamabad.</p>.<p>Trump hosted Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan at the White House in July, and the US has several times welcomed Pakistani help in negotiations with the Afghan Taliban.</p>.<p>In January 2018, Trump froze the assistance, saying Pakistan was not doing enough to target bases of the Afghan Taliban and its affiliated Haqqani group.</p>.<p>According to a US State Department spokesperson, the freeze "authorized narrow exceptions for programs that support vital US national security interests."</p>.<p>The US administration "has approved the resumption of the International Military Education and Training (IMET) program for Pakistan as one such exception, subject to congressional approval," the spokesperson said.</p>.<p>US officials have long accused Pakistani agencies of collaborating with Islamist radicals including the Taliban, but they cite progress over the past few months.</p>.<p>Islamabad has denied such accusations and at the time called it "counterproductive" to threaten security aid, which Trump froze prior to Khan's election in August 2018.</p>
<p>The United States will allow Pakistan to rejoin a military training program suspended two years ago when President Donald Trump froze security aid to the country.</p>.<p>Resuming the program, which represents only a part of the halted aid, is one sign of warming relations between Washington and Islamabad.</p>.<p>Trump hosted Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan at the White House in July, and the US has several times welcomed Pakistani help in negotiations with the Afghan Taliban.</p>.<p>In January 2018, Trump froze the assistance, saying Pakistan was not doing enough to target bases of the Afghan Taliban and its affiliated Haqqani group.</p>.<p>According to a US State Department spokesperson, the freeze "authorized narrow exceptions for programs that support vital US national security interests."</p>.<p>The US administration "has approved the resumption of the International Military Education and Training (IMET) program for Pakistan as one such exception, subject to congressional approval," the spokesperson said.</p>.<p>US officials have long accused Pakistani agencies of collaborating with Islamist radicals including the Taliban, but they cite progress over the past few months.</p>.<p>Islamabad has denied such accusations and at the time called it "counterproductive" to threaten security aid, which Trump froze prior to Khan's election in August 2018.</p>