Pakistan, US urged to rebuild mutually beneficial ties

CHICAGO, Feb 23 (APP):The United States and Pakistan need to intensify their contacts in an effort to remove some misperceptions so as to rebuild mutually beneficial relationship between the two counties, a senior Pakistani diplomat has said.
“Whenever Pakistan and the US worked together in the past, both the countries benefited and it had yielded positive results,” Consul General Faisal Niaz Tirmizi told a seminar at the East West University of Chicago.
“Disengagement is not a solution,” he said at the event organized by the university to promote an understanding of Pakistan’s perspective about the US policy under the Trump administration.

Speaking on the occasion , the consul general briefed the audience about the seven decades of US-Pakistan relationship which, he said, had been mutually beneficial. In this regard, he highlighted Pakistan’s role in promoting the US-China rapprochement and its cooperation that led to the defeat of communism.
Pakistan, he said, had also made a huge contribution in combating terrorism, with the sacrifices of its armed forces and people. The US should not blame Pakistan for its failures in Afghanistan, Tirmizi said.

He regretted President Trump’s tweet at the advent of the New Year, saying a major part of the US aid to Pakistan has been to compensate it for the money it spent to fight the terrorists.
Tirmizi reiterated Pakistan pledge to help bring about a negotiated settlement of the Afghan crisis, saying Pakistan had provided two opportunities to do so, but both were floundered by Afghanistan and the US.