US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Pakistan's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar discussed cooperation in the fight against terrorism in a telephone conversation. This was disclosed in a written statement by the head of the press service of the Foreign Ministry Tammy Bruce.

According to Bruce, the foreign ministers “emphasised the importance of further cooperation on counter-terrorism.” The Secretary of State “expressed appreciation to Pakistan for the detention and transfer to the United States” of Mohammad Sharifullah, one of the field commanders of IS-Khorasan Province terrorist group (the Afghan branch of Islamic State extremist organisation). He was detained near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border with the assistance of U.S. intelligence and brought to the United States in early March. As White House press secretary Caroline Leavitt said on 7 March, Sharifullah, who orchestrated a terrorist attack in Kabul in 2021, admitted that he was responsible for the forays into Russian Federation.