Pakistan's intelligence chief Ahmad Shuja Pasha is due in Washington for talks, as relations between the countries continue to deteriorate.
The spy chief will "co-ordinate intelligence matters" during his one-day trip, Pakistan's military said. On Monday Pakistan's defence minister said that troops may be withdrawn from the Afghan border, after the US announced a major cut to military aid.
Ties have been fraught since the US killed Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan.
The al-Qaeda chief was killed when US Navy Seal commandos raided his compound in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad on 2 May.
Many in the US have questioned how the fugitive could have lived undetected for years in a Pakistani cantonment town so close to the capital.
But in the months leading up to the raid, tensions were already running high over the case of Raymond Davis, the CIA contractor who shot and killed two men in Lahore.
Many in Pakistan were demanding that he be tried for murder. He was eventually released after "blood money" was paid to the families of the victims.
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