The White House has released a picture of Donald Trump staring at what it described as rare earth minerals, fixated on Pakistan Army Chief Asim Munir’s presentation displayed in a neatly arranged wooden box, as Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif looked on with a smile.

The photo came after a closed-door meeting at the Oval Office and weeks after a US metals company signed a $500 million investment deal with Pakistan.

Earlier this month, Pakistan’s Frontier Works Organisation, a military engineering body under the Army establishment, signed a memorandum of understanding with Missouri-based US Strategic Metals to establish a poly-metallic refinery in the country.

In August, Islamabad unveiled what Munir called its "treasure" to the US and reached a trade agreement that Pakistan hoped would att

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