By Muhammad Luqman
The United States has congratulated Pakistan’s newly elected Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and said it looked forward to working with him on areas of mutual cooperation.
“We want to congratulate Prime Minister Shahid Abbasi on his election by the national assembly. We will certainly look forward to working with him on areas of mutual cooperation” State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert said .
She said the US has very strong people-to-people ties with the government of Pakistan.
“We’ll look forward to working with Pakistan, and we’ll look forward to working with him (Abbasi) as well,” she was quoted by Pakistani and American media.
