While staying at the ambassador’s residence can considerably reduce the cost of the visit, a probe revealed that neither the United States secret service nor the city administration appears “very receptive” to the idea.
A visiting government head also holds a number of meetings with US officials, lawmakers and media and think-tank representatives during his stay in Washington. Since the residence is not large enough for all these meetings, the prime minister will have to meet his guests at the Pakistan embassy, commuting through Washington’s busy traffic during rush hours. To do so, his entourage will have to drive by most of these embassies as well as the US vice president’s official residence.
