The cash starved Pakistan has appealed United States to restore military financing and sales, the report said on Saturday.
The financing was suspended by US to Pakistan during former President Donald Trump’s tenure.
According to the report in NDTV, Pakistan's envoy to US Masood Khan, during the seminar in Washington said: "It is important that the US restores, for Pakistan, Foreign Military Financing and Foreign Military Sales, suspended by the previous administration.”
Following US troops withdrawal from Afghanistan, US-Pakistan relationship has been stuck in a prolonged period of uncertainty. And, now with the rivalry between US and China, Pakistan's relations with America have strained and also damaged the country's deteriorating economy.
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“US Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia, Elizabeth Horst, who was also at the event, focused on the need to help rebuild the troubled Pakistani economy and urged Islamabad to work with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to do so,” the report said.
"The reforms that Pakistan and the IMF agreed to are not easy. But it's crucial that Pakistan take these actions to bring the country back to sound financial footing, avoid falling into further debt, and grow Pakistan's economy," the report quoted Horst as having said.
US has already asked Pakistan to implement 'tough reforms' agreed with IMF
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Recently, the increase in high-level diplomatic engagements and dialogues gave Pakistan a ray of hope again with regard to repairing the strained ties with the US.
The half-day conference at Wilson Centre, Washington, focused on how the US-Pakistan relationship can be crafted against the backdrop of multiple challenging developments.
The report said, Ambassador Khan said Pakistan placed its first order for Russian oil and did so in consultation with the US government.
He also spoke about the role Pakistan can play in bringing stability to Afghanistan, it mentioned.
"Afghanistan's stability is imperative, first and foremost, for its own people who have suffered grievously over the past four decades," the report quoted Khan as having said.
"Let's work together to eliminate this threat. Today it is a threat for Pakistan and Afghanistan; if unchecked, it will spread to other parts of the region and beyond," it quoted Khan as having said.
