The US has congratulated new Pak President Mamnoon Hussain, saying that it looks forward to engage with him in the coming years.
"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.
Born in the historic city of Agra, Hussain, who belongs to an Urdu-speaking ethnic group that migrated from India during Partition in 1947, was the ruling PML-N's candidate.
