United States Fundamental Deputy Laborer Secretary Elizabeth Horst Friday praised Masood Khan, Pakistan’s ambassador to the USA, for his products and services in opposition to construction “bridges between Islamabad and Washington”.
“On behalf of the State Department, I just want to note that the US-Pakistan relationship is in the best place it’s been in years, in part, in large part to what Ambassador Masood Khan has done to represent Pakistan, to build bridges between Islamabad and Washington,” mentioned Horst at a adieu dinner.
The development used to be organised to proclaim the products and services of Khan with officers from the Segment of Circumstance and the Segment of Protection in attendance.
By and for the Circumstance Segment, the USA professional said that the binds between the 2 international locations, like several longstanding dating, have skilled friction now and then, however “because of you, we know how we can talk through this and we have a framework to talk through friction”, she added.
Next serving two years as Pakistan’s manage consultant in the USA from February 2022, Khan is ready to drop one of the vital coveted diplomatic posts after generation on Monday along with his deputy to accomplish envoy tasks following his retirement from Washington.
The seasoned diplomat used to be nominated for the submit via then-prime minister Imran Khan in November 2021.
Spare Overseas Secretary (Heart East and SIFC) Ambassador Rizwan Saeed Sheikh has now been appointed as envoy to the USA.
In her honour for Khan and his position in sustaining the binds between Pakistan and the USA, the Circumstance Segment professional mentioned that each international locations have accomplished balance and a broadening of dating that they haven’t revealed in lots of a few years.
“We have had new dialogues opened. We have looked for new areas of trade,” she mentioned, including that each countries have seemed for methods by which they may be able to cooperate on such things as fitness and effort and condition, issues that we’ve got now not been mentioned for an extended week.
“And all of this is since you, Masood, were an strange consultant of the Pakistani society and the Pakistani govt. You will have been an individual of integrity, You will have introduced creativity and hospitality.
“You have used your dining room table for delicious lunches for everybody in the government of the United States as well as Capitol Hill. You have been incredibly effective. And we have this relationship now because of the efforts that you have made.”
Horst, appreciating the ambassador’s contributions, advised Khan that future he’s retirement, the connection between Pakistan and the USA is healthier than when he arrived and “as strong as it’s been in a long time”.
“I think we are all going to benefit from the two years that you put in here. I want to thank you personally and from the State Department,” she concluded.
