According to Dawn News, Pakistan hopes the firm will be able to take advantage of the recent positive developments to boost its image.

However, Tom Reynolds himself has a dark background and was connected to the  Mark Foley scandal, which broke in late Sept 2006, when it was discovered that sexually suggestive instant messages and emails were sent by Mark Foley, a Republican Congressman from Florida, to teenaged boys who had formerly served as congressional pages.

Reynolds had retired amid the scandal at the end of the 110th Congress.

Kirk Fordham, chief of staff to Rep. Tom Reynolds (who now represents Holland & Knight) and former chief of staff for Foley, also had resigned as a result of the scandal.

Pakistan hired Tom Renoylds as a lobbyist while reports were doing round on how he had once resigned from the House of Representatives amidst a sex scandal or what was called congressional page scandal.

According to a New York Times article of 2006, Reynolds, who was one of the few members of Congress to know about the Foley problem early on, had not done enough though he had insisted that he did all he had to when he "took it to my supervisor" - Hastert.

According to media reports, the motive behind Pakistan's signing Reynolds as lobbyist was to advance Pakistan's interest in the US, which increasingly is acting tough on Pakistan on foreign funding.

“Joining former Congressman Reynolds will be a team comprising other former members of Congress, former senior Administration officials, capitol Hill veterans and other professional experts,” the Embassy said in a release as quoted by the media.

Tom Reynolds also held a meeting with Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi during the signing, media reports said.

Tom Reynolds assured that the firm will extend full assistance for expansion in the bilateral ties on the basis of mutual interest and respect, reported The News International.

In his political career, Reynolds had represented New York’s 26th Congressional District for about a decade from 1999 to 2009. 

In a report published in 2008, Politico reported: "But that September [2006], Reynonds was accused of not responding with sufficient speed or vigor to reports that Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fla.) had sent sexually suggestive e-mails to a former House page  — a scandal that strained Reynolds’ relationship with Hastert and with other leading Republicans. Shortly thereafter, the GOP lost its House majority in a landslide election that also marked the end of Reynolds' four-year tenure atop the National Republican Congressional Committee."

Meanwhile, the Pakistan PM is being roasted in social media for his US trip in the course of which he was not even officially received by any senior US official in a diplomatic snub, reports said.

US President Donald Trump had earlier attacked Pakistan holding that the South Asian nation does not do  'anything' for America and even helped terrorist Osama Bin Laden hide near its garrison city.