Afghanistan: U.S.-Pakistan Strategic Dialogue Resumes After Three Years --- Senior U.S. and Pakistani officials have met in Washington for their first "strategic dialogue" session in more than three years. -- Secretary of State John Kerry met with Pakistani foreign-affairs adviser Sartaj Aziz. -- The "strategic dialogue" process was halted after 2010 as relations between Washington and Islamabad plunged over issues including the 2011 U.S. raid inside Pakistan that killed Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. -- Kerry said on January 27 that Pakistan had the capability to rebound from its economic stagnation and become what he called a "tiger economy for the 21st century." - He backed Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's economic reforms. -- Aziz was quoted as saying Pakistan hoped Washington will start looking at Pakistan as a more significant partner, and not just through the lenses of the antiterrorism fight and neighboring Afghanistan.