Ambassador of the United States to Pakistan, Donald Blome, called on Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday to bandy bilateral ties, according to a statement from the premier’s office.
Ambassador Blome, who arrived in Pakistan late last month, has taken over the charge of the US charge at a time of unique challenges and openings. He’s the first full- time American envoy in Islamabad after a gap of nearly four times, assuming charge of his assignment when Afghanistan is supposedly no more a dominant issue in bilateral ties following last time’s pullout of US forces from the country at the end of a 20- time-long war the longest in American history.
Before moment, Blome presented his credentials to President Dr Arif Alvi at the Presidency in Islamabad.
preliminarily, David Hale served as the US minister to Pakistan from 2015 to 2018.
In his meeting with Blome moment, PM Shehbaz stressed the major, longstanding ties between the two countries and underlined Pakistan’s desire to further develop this relationship on the base of collective respect, trust, and interest, the statement from the Prime Minister’s Office said.
The premier underlined that colorful discourses established between Pakistan and US had been playing a critical part in strengthening bilateral ties in the areas of trade, investment, IT, climate change, health, and energy.
He emphasised that US companies demanded to be encouraged by the Development Finance Corporation of the US to invest in Pakistan’s large request keeping in view the country’s profitable and demographic eventuality.
The PM also complimented the minister on his donation of credentials to the chairman and expressed the stopgap that the envoy would devote his sweats to heightening and enhancing bilateral ties between the US and Pakistan.
” This time marks the 75th anniversary of the establishment of politic ties between Pakistan and the United States,” the statement added.
He hoped that both countries would celebrate the major occasion” in a befitting manner, which would further consolidate bilateral and people- to- people ties”. He also stressed the need to have further exchanges at a high- position between the two countries.
Ambassador Blome thanked Pakistan for its prompt and effective backing in easing the evacuation( of people) from Afghanistan.
In reply, the premier emphasised that the deepening of cooperation between Pakistan and the United States would promote peace and stability in Afghanistan and contribute to preventing the philanthropic extremity in that country, which had been further exacerbated by the recent earthquake.
While pressing the rising surge of Islamophobia in India, PM Shehbaz condemned the impious reflections by two BJP officers about the Holy Prophet( PBUH), leading to outrage among Muslims.
He refocused out that India was committing” grave violations of mortal rights in the Indian Immorally enthralled Jammu and Kashmir( IIOJK)”.
While reiterating Pakistan’s commitment to the creation of peace in the region, he stressed the significance of peaceful resolution of the Jammu and Kashmir disagreement.
PM Shehbaz prompted the transnational community to discharge its moral scores, while also calling upon India to cleave to the UN judgments .
The high minister also conveyed his good wishes to the people and government of the United States on their 246th Independence Day.
