‘Signs Of Real Results’: Kerry

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

Canada: Oye! Times readers Get FREE $30 to spend on Amazon, Walmart…
USA: Oye! Times readers Get FREE $30 to spend on Amazon, Walmart…

The Interior Minister of Pakistan, Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan held a joint news briefing with US Secretary of State John Kerry who said that Pakistan is playing a vital role in bringing peace into the South Asian region. Whereas the interior minister informed that the relations between Pakistan and the United States were also improving rapidly.

The US Secretary said, “First of all, in the transition taking place in Afghanistan, we are witnessing an unprecedented level of effort to try to produce cooperation,” quoted Dawn News adding that he further said that these efforts had produced “some signs of real results.” He also recognized Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Gen Raheel Sharif’s personal commitment to improving the Pak-Afghan relations. “They’ve been real,” he said.

Kerry further added that the Pakistani leadership are committed to abolish after “terrorists, all forms of extremism” in Pakistan. “And they are making good on that in their initiatives in the western part of the country and elsewhere, and in their cooperation on counter-terrorism,” he said. Kerry also warned that Pakistan will have to overcome challenges as “a lot has happened in the last years that had emboldened some of the extremists”. “I look forward to continuing the cooperative effort on the economy as well as the cooperative effort in counter-terrorism and democracy building,” said the US Secretary,  “I think what happened … after the Salala incident, and the subsequently reaction which led to blockade of the Afghan transit supply routes – that’s a far cry now, and both the United States and Pakistan are working very, very closely.”