ISLAMABAD: Pakistan clarified Friday that it considers the US a friend and “wants broad-based relations to achieve our shared objective of peace and prosperity in the region and beyond”.
This was said by the Foreign Office Spokesperson Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri during his weekly press briefing. He answered questions on Pakistan’s response to the escalating situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan’s relations with the US.
“Pakistan and the United States have a history of close cooperative relations. This cooperative relationship has served the interests of both the countries,” he said.
In the context of the ongoing Afghan Peace Process, Pakistan and the US have similar views and interests on several key issues, added the spokesperson.
“We both believe that there’s no military solution to the conflict in Afghanistan and we both want to see peace in Afghanistan,” he noted.
Chaudhri said Pakistan played an instrumental role in bringing about the peace agreement between the Taliban and the US in Doha last year.
He continued that Pakistan and the United States support an inclusive, broad-based and comprehensive political settlement in Afghanistan through a process that is owned and led by the Afghans themselves.
Chaudhri said neither should Pakistan “be looked at through the prism of another country nor should our relations be viewed narrowly”.
