US focused on moving forward in its ties with Pak: Ventrell

"We are focused on moving forward in our relations with Pakistan. We have many shared interests, including peace and reconciliation in Afghanistan, increasing trade and investment between our countries and the region, and in strengthening our people-to-people ties," US State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell told reporters yesterday.

Following an apology by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on July 3 for the November cross border airstrike that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers, Pakistan agreed to reopen the crucial NATO supply routes seven months after it had closed them.

Clinton spoke with Pakistani foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar saying that the US was "sorry for the losses suffered by the Pakistani military."

 

Ventrell said reopening of the supply routes was a "tangible demonstration" of Pakistan