Pakistan, US trying to remove some misperceptions to promote relations: Pakistani diplomat

CHICAGO, Apr 26 (APP):Pakistan and the United States (US) have been working on to remove some
misperceptions in an effort to rebuild a mutually beneficial relationship, a senior Pakistani diplomat has said.
“Though there are some misperceptions on both sides, disengagement has never been a solution of issues in history,” Faisal Niaz Tirmizi, the consul general in Chicago, said during a public lecture at the University of Wisconsin in Madison on Wednesday.
Tirmizi was invited by the university, one of America’s top educational institutions, for a talk on Pakistan-US relations.
He said that geographical proximity with Afghanistan made Pakistan especially important for the United States.
The consul general talked about the sacrifices and efforts made by Pakistan during the ongoing war on terror, highlighting the successes of Pakistans armed forces in combating terrorists. Pakistan, he said, was perhaps the only country where extremist elements are being effectively pushed back without any external help.
Tirmizi also briefed the faculty and students of the university about rapidly growing economy of Pakistan. He said that Pakistans enormous youth bulge had turned the country into the worlds fastest growing retail market. Pakistans retail market, he added, was the third largest retail market in Asia will cross $ 200 billion by 2020.
Speaking about United States immense contributions to Pakistans economic, military and social development in the past, Consul General Tirmizi also referred Pakistan’s role in the two significant achievements of the US foreign policy — the US-China rapprochement and the decisive win against communism.