As Donald Trump, Republican’s “victorious” president-elect, declared win towards Democrat opponent and United States Vice President Kamala Harris, Pakistan prolonged felicitations for his historic second time period.
Trump, who resided within the White Home as president from 2017 to 2021, will return to Washington after defeating Harris and changing into the forty seventh president of the US.
Because the world extends its needs to the successful Republican candidate, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, too, congratulated him for “historic victory for a second time period”, mentioning Trump as president-elect.
“I stay up for working carefully with the incoming Administration to additional strengthen and broaden the Pakistan-US partnership @realDonaldTrump,” wrote PM Shehbaz in his publish.
PM Shehbaz’s want for Trump, who will return to imagine the president’s workplace in Washington for the second time, got here after his victory speech was broadcast dwell for viewers world wide.
Whereas full outcomes of the US presidential polls are but to be introduced, Trump — based mostly on a number of US media stories together with these of Fox Information — has claimed victory within the historic race that noticed a Black-South Asian lady Harris compete towards a former white president.
The Democratic candidate is method behind within the race with 226 and Trump main with 277 votes, as per the aforementioned American media.
Then again, Omar Ayub Khan — the Chief of the Opposition within the Nationwide Meeting and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PIT) lawmaker — additionally prolonged congratulations to Trump and his VP-elect JD Vance on successful the polls.
“It’s hoped that this workforce will foster higher relations between the individuals of Pakistan and the individuals of the US of America,” he wrote in a publish on X.
The PTI additionally took to their official X deal with to congratulate the Republican candidate and his VP-elect, stating that the individuals of the US have spoken and their “mandate has been revered”.
It added that it’s “a stark distinction to Pakistan, the place the general public mandate was blatantly stolen”.
The felicitations from the PTI and Ayub come at a time when the occasion’s founder Imran Khan stays imprisoned for over a yr following convictions in a number of circumstances.
The want for Trump can also be essential because the occasion has, in keeping with claims made by Defence Minister Khawaja Asif, urged overseas powers to affect Pakistan for the discharge of their founder and guarantee shifting him overseas.
Throughout his tenure as prime minister of Pakistan, Imran shared amicable ties with Trump administration — a purpose why the PTI celebrates the US president-elect’s return to energy as a possible benefit.
In the meantime, Pakistan Peoples Occasion Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, in his message for Trump, congratulated him and his workforce on the “election and historic comeback” and “resounding victory”.
Terming the Republican’s win and mandate “anti-war”, Bilawal wrote: “We hope the brand new administration will prioritize peace and assist finish the cycle of perpetual international battle.”