Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has called for a reset of the strained US-Pakistan relations through engagement, saying he believes the two countries agree on far more than they disagree on.
“The way in which this relationship progressed in recent years doesn’t serve the interests of the people of Pakistan, but it also doesn’t serve the interests of the people of America,” he was quoted as saying in an interview with The Washington Post. “And I still believe that Pakistan and the United States agree on far more than we disagree on.”
Post Correspondent Josh Rogin, who interviewed Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, used the foreign minister’s comments in his regular column to the newspaper’s Friday edition.
Pointing out that Bilawal Bhutto came to the United States last week to explore yet another attempt to repair the U.S.-Pakistan alliance, columnist Rogin urged Washington to hear him out. (The foreign minister came to New York on May 17 to attend high level meetings at the United Nation on food security.”
Noting that leaders in both U.S. political parties (Republican and Democratic) have largely written off Pakistan, columnist Rogin wrote, “Yet it is a major non-NATO ally, the world’s fifth-most-populous country and a nuclear power situated strategically among China, India, Afghanistan and Iran.
“After years of mutual distrust between Washington and Islamabad, there are plenty of reasons to be skeptical of the idea that either side is capable – much less willing – to do the...
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