{"id":77539,"date":"2024-03-31T12:56:11","date_gmt":"2024-03-31T12:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/pm-shehbaz-conveys-to-biden-pakistans-willingness-to-work-with-us-for-intl-peace-regional-prosperity\/"},"modified":"2024-03-31T12:56:11","modified_gmt":"2024-03-31T12:56:11","slug":"pm-shehbaz-conveys-to-biden-pakistans-willingness-to-work-with-us-for-intl-peace-regional-prosperity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/pm-shehbaz-conveys-to-biden-pakistans-willingness-to-work-with-us-for-intl-peace-regional-prosperity\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Shehbaz conveys to Biden Pakistan\u2019s willingness to work with US for int\u2019l peace, regional prosperity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Sunday responded to US President Joe Biden\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1824599\/in-letter-to-pm-biden-vows-to-stand-with-pakistan\">letter<\/a> and said Pakistan was willing to work with the United States on the shared targets of international peace and regional security.<\/p>\n<p>Biden had written to felicitate PM Shehbaz on Friday, assuring that Washington would continue to stand with Pakistan to tackle \u201cthe most pressing global and regional challenges\u201d. In his first communication with the new administration, the US president had noted that the \u201cenduring partnership between our nations remains critical to ensuring the security of our people \u2014 and people around the world\u201d.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media  sm:w-1\/2  w-full  media--right  media--embed  media--uneven\">\n<p>    <iframe class=\"nk-iframe\" onload=\"setInterval(()=&gt;{try{this.style.height=this.contentWindow.document.body.scrollHeight+'px';}catch{}}, 100)\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"height:400px;position:relative\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/card\/1640265\" sandbox=\"allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-popups allow-modals allow-forms\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Interestingly, Biden had not had a similar communication with former prime minister Imran Khan when the US president assumed office.<\/p>\n<p>In his response to the US president\u2019s letter today, released by the Prime Minister\u2019s Office, the premier said: \u201cPakistan is willing to work with the US towards a common goal of global peace and security and development and prosperity of the region.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said Pakistan attached \u201ckey importance\u201d to its relations with the US, adding that the two countries were jointly working together on important initiatives regarding the energy, climate change, agriculture, health and education sectors.<\/p>\n<p>PM Shehbaz said that cooperation in the energy sector and Green Alliance Framework initiative between the two countries was welcome.<\/p>\n<p>Experts had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1824528\">noted<\/a> that Biden\u2019s letter did not congratulate PM Shehbaz for assuming power or winning the election.<\/p>\n<p>At a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1822769\">recent Congressional hearing<\/a>, senior US diplomat Donald Lu had been asked whether Washington recognised the new government in Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>The question, posed by Representative Tim Burchett, was based on allegations of rigging and reports of irregularities in the recent February 8 elections. US lawmakers and the State Department have repeatedly called for a thorough probe into the claims, while Lu suggested that the Election Commission of Pakistan may want to \u201cre-do\u201d some of the contests.<\/p>\n<p>However, in his response at the time, Lu had clarified that the \u201cUS does not go around recognising new governments\u201d, rather it just worked with the regime in power at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, a cohort of US Democratic lawmakers had written to Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken, urging them to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1818191\/us-lawmakers-urge-biden-not-to-recognise-new-pakistan-govt\">refrain from recognising<\/a> the new government in Pakistan until allegations of election rigging were thoroughly investigated.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Sunday responded to US President Joe Biden\u2019s letter and said Pakistan was willing to work with the United States on the shared targets of international peace and regional security. Biden had written to felicitate PM Shehbaz on Friday, assuring that Washington would continue to stand with Pakistan to tackle \u201cthe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.dawn.com\/large\/2024\/03\/31172451be82ec4.png?r=172626","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}