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As we start 2016 with anticipation for peace let’s look back and reflect how 2015 fared! The United States and Pakistan relationship has done well. Both the Pakistani Prime Minister and the Chief of Army Staff visited the U.S. and held meaningful meetings with the President and other important U.S. government officials. Throughout the year our military to military contact continued on multiple levels. General Austin the CENTCOM Commander and General Campbell the Chief of Coalition forces in Afghanistan met with Pakistani Generals on a regular basis and discussed bilateral issues and common goals against terrorism.
Pakistan’s operation, Zarb-e Azb, against terrorists has yield good results against the TTP and its affiliates. Terrorists’ attacks have significantly gone down in 2015. We have seen vast areas of Northern Pakistan cleared of terrorists’ enclaves and return of displaced people due to terrorism.
In October of last year during Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s visit to the White House, President Obama said in his welcome address, “…Obviously, the United States and Pakistan have a longstanding relationship. We work and cooperate on a whole host of issues -- not just on security matters, but also on economic and scientific and educational affairs. And we’re looking forward to using this meeting as an opportunity to further deepen the relationship between the United States and Pakistan. I should note that we have an extraordinary Pakistani-American community that is helping to build this country. And those people-to-people ties are part of what makes this relationship so special…”
We look forward to a more productive 2016, and hope to continue our cooperation to bring sustained peace in the region.
Abdul Quddus
DET - U.S. Central Command
www.facebook.com/centcomurdu
Pakistan’s operation, Zarb-e Azb, against terrorists has yield good results against the TTP and its affiliates. Terrorists’ attacks have significantly gone down in 2015. We have seen vast areas of Northern Pakistan cleared of terrorists’ enclaves and return of displaced people due to terrorism.
In October of last year during Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s visit to the White House, President Obama said in his welcome address, “…Obviously, the United States and Pakistan have a longstanding relationship. We work and cooperate on a whole host of issues -- not just on security matters, but also on economic and scientific and educational affairs. And we’re looking forward to using this meeting as an opportunity to further deepen the relationship between the United States and Pakistan. I should note that we have an extraordinary Pakistani-American community that is helping to build this country. And those people-to-people ties are part of what makes this relationship so special…”
We look forward to a more productive 2016, and hope to continue our cooperation to bring sustained peace in the region.
Abdul Quddus
DET - U.S. Central Command
www.facebook.com/centcomurdu
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