Britain’s Boris Johnson seeks to work with PM Shehbaz Sharif

LONDON: United Kingdom’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson stated on Wednesday that he needed to work with Pakistan’s newly elected premier Shehbaz Sharif.

PM Shehbaz was sworn in because the prime minister on April 11, following the ouster of the Imran Khan authorities via a no-confidence movement — making him the primary premier to be eliminated via the democratic course of.

“Congratulations to @CMShehbaz on his election as Prime Minister of Pakistan,” Johnson stated in a tweet, the place he share his aspirations for a future working relationship along with his Pakistani counterpart.

“The UK & Pakistan have a longstanding relationship and our folks share deep ties. I sit up for working collectively on areas of shared curiosity,” the UK’s PM added.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan additionally felicitated Shehbaz on assuming the prime minister’s workplace.

In the meantime, the Pentagon has hoped that the US would proceed its “wholesome” military-to-military ties with Pakistan regardless of the change within the authorities.

“…we do have a wholesome military-to-military relationship with Pakistani armed forces. And now we have each expectation that that may have the ability to proceed to be the case,” Pentagon Press Secretary John F Kirby stated in a press briefing Tuesday.

The Pentagon official stated the US recognises that it has shared pursuits with Pakistan with respect to safety and stability. “We recognise that Pakistan performs a key position within the area.”

Equally, in a press briefing, White Home Press Secretary Jen Psaki had stated {that a} democratic Pakistan was important to the pursuits of the US.

“We assist the peaceable upholding of constitutional democratic ideas, we do not assist one political social gathering over one other,” the press secretary had stated.

Psaki added that the US values its long-standing cooperation with Pakistan and has all the time considered a affluent and democratic Pakistan as important to US pursuits — that is still unchanged no matter who the management is.