ISLAMABAD, Feb 19: A four-member US congressional delegation that arrived here on Tuesday afternoon left Pakistan early Wednesday morning.

A US embassy spokesman said the delegation was scheduled to go to Afghanistan and had other onward travel plans. However, owing to “security reasons” he preferred not to talk about these plans.

The US legislators, during their stay in Islamabad, had called on President Pervez Musharraf and Vice Chief of Army Staff Gen Muhammad Yusaf Khan. Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri Mehmood Kasuri was also present during the senators meeting with the president on Tuesday evening.

The US delegation was however unable to get an audience with Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Jamali because of the latter’s preoccupation. “They (senators) wanted to meet the PM but he was unavailable,” a US embassy official told Dawn on Wednesday.

This was the first US congressional delegation to visit Pakistan after Jamali formed government.