-----------------------------------------------------------------But Pakistan’s courtship of President Donald Trump since he took office a little over a year ago has also played an important role. It’s been a wide-ranging campaign, and one that has shown a canny understanding of Trump’s ego.“Pakistan wouldn’t be convening these talks if it didn’t have that strong relationship with Washington and that personal trust between its leaders and President Trump,” said Elizabeth Threlkeld, a former foreign service officer in Islamabad, now director of the South Asia Program at the Stimson Center, a Washington-based think tank.