WASHINGTON, Jan 01 (APP):In a New Year message, Pakistani Ambassador Rizwan Saeed Sheikh highlighted the “transformative” change in Pakistan-US relations in 2025, hoping that the ties between the two countries would be further strengthened in 2026.
“I wish the Pakistani-Americans, the entire American nation, a happy new year 2026,” Ambassador Sheikh said, adding that bilateral relations will make “further strides”.
“2025 was a year that carried transformative tenor for Pak-US relations; We saw, witnessed and lived with a positive momentum in our bilateral relationship spanning over almost eight decades,” he said.
“Not only that we continued with our cooperation in the existing domains of counter terrorism, health, education, etc., but we identified new areas of transforming our longstanding relationship into a strategic, long-term partnership entrenched in economic ties,” Ambassador Sheikh noted.
“We identified IT, minerals, energy, hospitality and tourism and other avenues as new areas of mutually rewarding, beneficial engagement for both countries that should survive the test of time.
“Our leadership met frequently in this year.”
Pakistan and the United States, he said, need more people-to-people contacts and more enduring business relationships. “So while we identified new areas, new avenues of cooperation in 2025 and we are celebrating it at the end of this year, we need to enter into now calibrations and deliberations of transforming these ideas into actions.”