US State Department Deputy Chief Spokesman Vedant Patel said at a press briefing in Washington on Thursday that the United States is urging Pakistan to prioritize and expand economic reforms to address its own economic problems.
He said Pakistan’s finance minister is in the United States for part of a series of meetings with non-governmental organizations — not just within the US government interagency, but within them. And he also met with high officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Responding to a question, Vedant Patel said that Pakistan remains an important partner of the United States in many fields. First of all, it is a country with which we have tremendous security cooperation, and of course we are trying to continue to cooperate and work with the Pakistani government.
He said that our partnership with Pakistan is rooted in what is, of course, in the interest of the American people and the people of Pakistan and governments that are committed to working for the people of Pakistan.
