{"id":47180,"date":"2016-12-01T17:03:27","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T23:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?p=47180"},"modified":"2016-12-02T22:04:17","modified_gmt":"2016-12-03T04:04:17","slug":"trumps-fantastic-call-to-pakistans-terrific-prime-minister-receives-mixed-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/trumps-fantastic-call-to-pakistans-terrific-prime-minister-receives-mixed-response\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s &#8216;fantastic&#8217; call to Pakistan\u2019s &#8216;terrific&#8217; prime minister receives mixed response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Shahzeb Ahmed<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"dropcap\">When it comes to foreign policy and diplomatic relations, most world leaders tend to stick to the script of mundane diplomatic-speak and inert compliments.<\/p>\n<p>President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s call to Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif sounded anything but ordinary. \u201cYou are a terrific guy,\u201d Trump told Sharif, per <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pid.gov.pk\/?p=30445\" target=\"_blank\">a transcript\u00a0released<\/a> by Sharif\u2019s office of the call the prime minister initiated to congratulate the U.S. President-elect on his election victory on Wednesday. \u201cYou are doing amazing work which is visible in every way.\u201d<br \/>\n<iframe title=\"Consul-General of Pakistan in Chicago speaks on Pakistan-US relations\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/193958791?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The President-elect, whose rhetoric against Muslims has made him a controversial figure at best in Pakistan, went on to say that he \u201cwould love\u201d to visit Pakistan \u2014 \u201ca fantastic country, fantastic place of fantastic people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlease convey to the Pakistani people that they are amazing and all Pakistanis I have known are exceptional people,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>The contents of the transcript came as a surprise to many in the two countries as it is against the norm to release such material in the diplomatic sphere. More than that, however, it raised several questions in the minds of policy experts who were taken by surprise as much by its candidness as by its content.<\/p>\n<p>Rizwan Kadir, President of The Pakistan Club of the University of Chicago&#8217;s Booth School of Business, was skeptical at best. \u201cWhen I first saw the news on Facebook, I immediately checked for the source because I thought it was satire,\u201d he chuckled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wonder if he used the same script for every world leader he spoke to. It looked like a script where you just change the name of the leader,\u201d he said. \u201cHe\u2019s saying I will do whatever you ask me to do: most Americans would be offended by that. No head of state should talk like this. This is cheap salesmanship,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Talat Rashid, a Pakistani-born Chicago-based businessman who has been supporting Trump since the start of his candidacy, sounded more hopeful. \u201cListen, most Pakistani Americans have been calling him names and speaking out against him since the start,\u201d he said. \u201cNow that he has asserted that he wants to mend bridges, we must be thankful,\u201d he said, referring to Trump\u2019s promise that he was \u201cready and willing to play any role that you want me to play to address and find solutions to the outstanding problems,\u201d per the transcript.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhatever he says, he will deliver it,\u201d said Rashid firmly. \u201cHe is a businessman. He wants to deliver. He wants to show world leaders that he is ready to work with everybody, even those who spoke ill of him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Faisal Niaz Tirmizi, the Pakistan Consul-General in Chicago, echoed his sentiment. \u201cPakistan and the U.S. share a very strong bilateral relationship,\u201d he said. \u201cWe have a very strong tradition in history spread over the last almost 70 years.\u201d He added that Pakistan owed a lot to the U.S. in terms of developmental assistance and building of institutions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am pretty hopeful, frankly,\u201d he said of his expectations of the new administration. \u201cOff course, it is not an easy relationship and we have some serious issues but all relationships have issues.\u201d He was, however, hopeful that the two countries would continue to collaborate in the various sectors such as security, education and building energy infrastructure in Pakistan.<\/p>\n<div class=\"featurecaption\">Photo at top courtesy of Siobhan Silke via Flickr<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Shahzeb Ahmed When it comes to foreign policy and diplomatic relations, most world leaders tend to stick to the script of mundane diplomatic-speak and inert compliments. President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s call to Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif sounded anything but ordinary. \u201cYou are a terrific guy,\u201d Trump told Sharif, per a transcript\u00a0released by Sharif\u2019s office [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":324,"featured_media":47278,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2941],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fall-2016"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Trump\u2019s &#039;fantastic&#039; call to Pakistan\u2019s &#039;terrific&#039; prime minister receives mixed response - Medill Reports Chicago<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/trumps-fantastic-call-to-pakistans-terrific-prime-minister-receives-mixed-response\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Trump\u2019s &#039;fantastic&#039; call to Pakistan\u2019s &#039;terrific&#039; prime minister receives mixed response - Medill Reports Chicago\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Shahzeb Ahmed When it comes to foreign policy and diplomatic relations, most world leaders tend to stick to the script of mundane diplomatic-speak and inert compliments. 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