This apart, after the appointment of Richard Holbrooke as the US special envoy for the region, most of the Pakistan-US interaction was channeled through his office, it noted.

The inaugural Pakistan-US strategic dialogue was held in Washington in April 2006 and was co-chaired by Pakistan's then foreign secretary Riaz Mohammad Khan and then US under secretary of state Nicholas Burns.

The decision to launch the strategic dialogue under Pakistan-US strategic partnership was taken during the March 4, 2006 summit talks here between then Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf and his then US counterpart George Bush.