"We congratulate President Mamoon Hussain. We look forward to engaging with him in the coming years," a State Department spokesperson told PTI.
Hussain was sworn in as the new President of Pakistan on Monday, replacing Asif Ali Zardari, who became the first democratically elected president to complete a full term.
Seventy-three-year-old India-born Hussain, a close aide of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, was sworn in on September 9 as the President of Pakistan, marking the culmination of the country's first democratic transition.
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