Foglesong visited Pakistan's Air Force headquarters and met with acting Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Tanvir Mehmood Ahmed, the Associated Press of Pakistan (APP) said, to exchange views on matters of "mutual professional interest."

Foglesong is the latest high-ranking US official to visit Pakistan in recent weeks, following a trip Tuesday by General Richard Myers, the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, and a first visit since he took over the US Central Command by General John Abizaid.

Details of Foglesong's talks with his Pakistani counterpart were not immediately available but a military official described the visit as a routine trip.

Pakistan is a key US ally in the campaign against terror and the two countries have worked together to root out remaining members of the al-Qaeda terrorist network and remnants of Afghanistan's ousted Taliban militia in the region bordering Afghanistan.

Pakistan has provided at least three air bases to the US-led force while its security forces have rounded up some 500 al-Qaeda suspects in the past 20 months.

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