{"id":27173,"date":"2025-04-04T10:46:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T10:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/?p=27173"},"modified":"2025-04-04T10:46:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T10:46:11","slug":"us-has-positive-engagement-on-security-with-pakistan-natalie-baker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/?p=27173","title":{"rendered":"US has positive engagement on security with Pakistan, Natalie Baker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG-20250404-WA0032-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG-20250404-WA0032-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG-20250404-WA0032-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG-20250404-WA0032-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG-20250404-WA0032-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG-20250404-WA0032.jpg 1599w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Islamabad : Charges d&#8217;Affairs US Embassy H.E Natalie Baker met today with Federal Minister for Petroleum Ali Pervaiz Malik to discuss bilateral energy collaboration, sustainable development, and opportunities for enhancing Pak-US relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The meeting, held at the Ministry of Petroleum, focused on strengthening U.S.-Pakistan partnerships in the energy sector, including renewable energy initiatives, minerals, hydrocarbons and infrastructure investments. Natalie Baker and Minister Malik exchanged views on critical energy challenges, technological innovation, and policy measures to support Pakistan\u2019s growing energy demands, future roadmap for mutually beneficial partnership and sustainability of energy sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister Ali Pervaiz Malik welcomed the U.S Government\u2019s continued partnership . \u201cPakistan values its strategic relationship with the United States, and aims US to be looked at as a partner in progress,\u201d he said. \u201cWe are keen to explore joint ventures in oil, gas, and renewable energy to ensure sustainable development and energy affordability for our citizens.\u201d The Federal Minister extended his gratitude to the Charg\u00e9 d&#8217;Affaires for personally assuring United States high level delegation\u2019s participation in the Pakistan Minerals Investment Forum happening next week. Mr Eric Meyer, acting Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asia will be attending the Minerals forum, this marks an important visit by a US Assistant Secretary level from state department after a long time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>H.E. Natalie Baker commended Pakistan&#8217;s economic recovery and successful implementation of critical reforms. She congratulated Prime Minister Shahbaz sharif and his cabinet for this success. She emphasized that United States has positive engagement on security with Pakistan. President Trump recognized contributions of Pakistan under PM Shahbaz Sharif in his first address. Now its time for expanding and transforming this relationship. She assured full support to Pakistan on the path of reforms under Prime Minister shehbaz Sharif.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The meeting concluded with a shared commitment to advancing mutual energy goals and exploring new avenues for U.S.-Pakistan cooperation in the sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad : Charges d&#8217;Affairs US Embassy H.E Natalie Baker met today with Federal Minister for Petroleum Ali Pervaiz Malik to discuss bilateral energy collaboration, sustainable development, and opportunities for enhancing&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":27174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,13],"tags":[2659,2104],"class_list":["post-27173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-main-stories","tag-federal-minister-for-petroleum","tag-us-charge-d-affairs-to-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27175,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27173\/revisions\/27175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}