Imran Khan

Khan lamented the huge human and economic cost of the War on Terror, noting that Pakistan "took a real battering."

"Afghanistan would be wiped off the face of the earth, it would be gone," Trump said on Monday.

The president said peace was "probably going to be happening" despite reports of continuing exchanges of weapons fire along the disputed Kashmir border.

Only last month, President Donald Trump said Pakistan had done nothing to help the U.S. in the 17-year war in Afghanistan.

Islamabad's anger at Trump's comments is growing.

"US 'aid' was a miniscule $20 bn," Prime Minister Imran Khan wrote on Twitter.

"With the U.S., we want to have a mutually beneficial relationship ... up until now, that has been one way."

The former cricketer's party won the most seats in July's elections, propping up Khan to become Pakistan's new leader more than two decades after pivoting from the sporting world to politics. 

The 65-year-old hopes to become prime minister as Pakistanis head to the polls.

He reportedly sought out the conservative Muslim spiritual guide for advice.

Offshore companies, million-dollar London properties and a rogue Microsoft font contributed to Sharif's demise.

The Nobel Peace Prize winner has issued a statement in which she blasted the attack as 'cowardly'

Khan's vehicle was hit as tens of thousands of protesters from two anti-government movements converged on Islamabad with security tight