”US expects Pak will resolve internal issues in a just manner”

The US today said that it expects Pakistan will be able to resolve its internal issues in a just and transparent manner in accordance with the country”s law and constitution.

“We expect that Pakistan will resolve any of these internal issues in a just and transparent manner in accordance with Pakistan”s own laws and constitution. Our understanding is that the Pakistani government itself is meeting now to decide how it goes forward from here,” the State Department spokesperson, Victoria Nuland, told reporters at her daily news conference.

“Throughout this process, which has been going on for a number of months now, we have continued to work with the Pakistani government and try to get through some of these issues that have been difficult,” she said.

“So it is our hope and expectation that we”ll be able to continue to do that, but they obviously have to work their internal issues internally,” Nuland said in response to a question on the ruling by the Pakistan Supreme Court that disqualified Yousuf Raza Gilani as the Prime Minister of the country.

Noting that the question of Prime Minister Gilani”s status and future and the court process with regard to him has been going on for some time, Nuland said the US has nonetheless been able to work with the Pakistani government through that period.

“As I said, they”ve got to now come to some internal conclusions about what this means for the government as a whole, et cetera, but our hope and expectation is that we will continue to be able to work with Pakistanis to try to finish some of these issues that we need to finish,” she said.