Ambassador Sheikh Extends Best Wishes for 2026
By Elaine Pasquini
Washington, DC: Sending New Year’s greetings from the Embassy of Pakistan on December 31, 2025, Rizwan Saeed Sheikh, Ambassador of Pakistan to the United States, proclaimed 2025 a year that “carried a transformative tenor” for Pakistan-US relations, noting the leadership of the two long-time allies met frequently during the year.
“We saw, witnessed and lived with a positive momentum in our bilateral relationship spanning over almost eight decades,” the ambassador said. “Not only that we continued with our cooperation in the existing domains of counter terrorism, health, education, etc., but we identified new areas of transforming our longstanding relationship into a strategic, long-term partnership entrenched in economic ties. We identified IT, minerals, energy, hospitality, tourism and other avenues as new areas of mutually rewarding, beneficial engagement for both countries that should survive the test of time.”
“In the New Year 2026,” he continued, “this identify of views with regard to good relations – strategic relations – between two densely populated mega countries of today and tomorrow, Pakistan and the United States, needs to be translated into a people-to-people level, into people-to-people contacts and more enduring business relationships. So, while we identified new areas, new avenues of cooperation in 2025 and we are celebrating it at the end of this year, we need to enter into new calibrations and deliberations of transforming these ideas into actions.”
Wishing Pakistani Americans and all Americans the best in the New Year, Ambassador Sheikh expressed his optimism for strengthening good relations between Pakistan and the United States in 2026.
(Elaine Pasquini is a freelance journalist. Her reports appear in the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs and Nuze.Ink.)
