US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said that the US will continue to work to expand its security partnership with Pakistan.
“Expanding security cooperation with Pakistan has been and will continue to be a priority,” State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said during a news conference on Thursday.
This month, US President Joe Biden wrote a letter to the newly elected Prime Minister of Pakistan, Shehbaz Sharif, expressing his best wishes for his government and saying that ‘in facing the most important challenges faced by the world and the region, the United States and Pakistan will support Pakistan. Will stand by.’
In response to which Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif wrote in his letter to President Biden that ‘Pakistan is willing to work with the United States for the common goal of global peace and security and the development and prosperity of the region.’
In the usual press briefing of the United States Department of State, when the spokesman Matthew Miller was asked that in response to President Biden’s letter, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said that “Pakistan should work with the United States for global peace and regional prosperity.” ready to do
What assistance can the United States provide to Pakistan in dealing with security threats from neighboring countries and confronting the Pakistani Taliban?
In response, Matthew Miller said, “We will continue to work to expand the security partnership between the United States and Pakistan.” We have repeatedly said from this podium (this venue) that this has been and will continue to be a priority for us.’
Shahbaz Sharif wrote in his reply letter to Joe Biden that Pakistan attaches key importance to relations with America. “Both countries are working together on important initiatives in the fields of energy, climate change, agriculture, health and education.”
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif welcomed the cooperation between the two countries in the energy sector and Green Alliance initiative.
Pakistan says it faces attacks from the outlawed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) across the border in Afghanistan and has been demanding that the Taliban government prevent its territory from being used against Pakistan.
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Last week, US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said that his country is determined to ensure that Afghanistan never again becomes a center of terrorism and will continue to press the Taliban to cooperate with the international community in all its counter-terrorism efforts. Keep promises.
He said, “We have made it clear to the Taliban that it is their responsibility to ensure that they do not give any safe haven to terrorists, whether it is al-Qaeda or Daesh Khorasan or any other terror.” Organization around.’
Since the establishment of the Taliban government in Afghanistan, Pakistan has repeatedly said that terrorist elements in Pakistan have safe havens in Afghanistan.
On March 16, 2024, Pakistan launched attacks on militant hideouts in Afghanistan after seven army personnel were killed in a militant attack in the tribal district of North Waziristan.
After which the Spokesperson of the Foreign Office of Pakistan Mumtaz Zahra Baloch made it clear that the air strike that Pakistan carried out on the shelters of militants in Afghanistan on March 18 was not an attack by the Afghan people or the army, but by a group of TTP. was targeted.
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