- Relations between the U.S. and Pakistan have been strained by recent events
- They include the killing of bin Laden and airstrikes that left Pakistani soldiers dead
- President Obama is due to meet the Pakistani prime minister in Seoul on Tuesday
- A Pakistani committee called last week for the U.S. to halt drone strikes inside Pakistan
(CNN) -- President Barack Obama is scheduled to meet Tuesday with Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani amid efforts by the United States and Pakistan to redefine their relationship after a string of damaging episodes last year.
The meeting between the two leaders on the sidelines of a large nuclear security summit meeting in Seoul comes as the Pakistani parliament is expected this week to start debating a committee's recommendation that the United States stop drone strikes inside its territory and apologize unconditionally for airstrikes that killed two dozen Pakistani soldiers in November.
The Parliamentary Committee on National Security, a group of 18 members of parliament responsible for reviewing relations with the United States, made the recommendation in a report to lawmakers last week.
"No overt or covert operations inside Pakistan shall be tolerated," the report said.
The talks Tuesday between Obama and Gilani are the highest profile meeting between the two countries since the airstrikes on November 26 that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers on the Pakistani-Afghan border.
The deaths drove relations between Washington and Islamabad to a new low, coming on top of anger over the U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden at a compound in Pakistan last May, and continued American drone strikes on targets in the nation.
Following the border airstrikes, the Pakistani government shut down the two NATO supply routes in the country, asked the United States to vacate an air base on its territory and boycotted a conference about the future of Afghanistan.
Pakistan FM speaks out on U.S. relations 
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Chaos inside Pakistan parliament "There obviously has been a fairly turbulent period in U.S.-Pakistan relations over the course of the last several months," Ben Rhodes, a deputy national security adviser to Obama, said Monday.
"I think we'll want to address the state of the relationship," Rhodes said. "Pakistan has been conducting a parliamentary review of that relationship that I'm sure Prime Minister Gilani will want to discuss with the president."
Rhodes added that Obama hoped to raise the subject of cooperation between the two countries on counterterrorism, as well as the outlook for the region as NATO troops aim to transfer security responsibility in Afghanistan to Afghan forces by the end of 2014.
The Pakistani parliamentary report on relations with the United States gave an indication of the level of discontent in Islamabad.
Calling on the Pakistani government to ensure that "the principles of an independent foreign policy" are observed, the report said that the United States "must review its footprints in Pakistan."
The three key points it listed in that regard were the cessation of drone strikes inside Pakistani borders, "no hot pursuit or boots on Pakistani territory," and the need for the activities of foreign private security contractors to be "transparent and subject to Pakistani law."
It demanded an "unconditional apology from the United States for the unprovoked incident dated 25th-26th November 2011." It also said that those responsible for the airstrikes should be brought to justice.
When lawmakers reconvened Monday, the committee's report was on the agenda, but the speaker did not call it up for debate. The joint session of the parliament must decide whether to act on the recommendations.
Hiader Abbas Rizvi, a committee member, said he expected the recommendations to be approved, but not before several days of debate.
"We kept in mind both the angles, domestic demands and the requirement by the international community, while compiling our recommendations," Rizvi said. "We were optimistic, progressive, but of course patriotic Pakistanis at the end while we were compiling the recommendations."
An investigation into the lethal NATO airstrikes in November by Brig. Gen. Stephen Clark on behalf of the United States concluded that Pakistan provoked NATO forces and that distrust between the two parties led to the firefight.
Pakistan disputed the findings, saying Clark's report was factually incorrect.
There has been a sharp drop in the number of drone attacks in Pakistan since the airstrikes.
U.S. officials rarely discuss the CIA's drone program in Pakistan, though privately they have said that the covert strikes are legal and an effective tactic in the fight against extremists.
In January, Obama defended the use of drone attacks, saying a "pinpoint strike" is "less intrusive" on other countries' sovereignty than other military ways to target al Qaeda.
He gave no indication that the U.S. policy of ordering drone strikes would change, at least as long as a terrorist threat remains.
CNN's Shaan Khan and Jethro Mullen contributed to this report.
