ISLAMABAD: Asserting that Pakistan’s priorities have shifted, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Tuesday asked the United States to emerge from its own hangover and stop visiting Islamabad in the”Afghanistan prism”, including that Washington ought to concentrate on the spiritual side for their relationship. Qureshiin a meeting with the Japanese newspaper Nikkei, emphasised that Islamabad’s priority currently comprises economic development and human evolution. “We have told them that Pakistan’s thought process has shifted. The US government should come from its hangover previously. It is a brand new, altered Pakistan, where our priorities have shifted. Our priority is economic development, human development, economic security, removal and eradication of terrorism, along with Placing extremism,” the Pakistan Foreign Minister informed Nikkei. Answering a query within reluctantly ties with the US and China, ” the minister said Pakistan has already been telling the Americans:”When you go off, someone has to step into.” “You are not investing in Pakistan, you are not participating in Pakistan. Are you helping construct this relationship? The only way that you can do this is stay engaged. Today if you only think of a transactional connection, then it will not do the job. You can not just continue stating,”Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Afghanistan.” There is a bilateral facet to us too” While noting that the significance of Afghanistan, ” the ministry stated that Islamabad is doing anything they can to revive peace and stability from the south-west nation,”But quit looking at us throughout the Afghanistan prism.” Throughout the meeting, Qureshi also noticed that the US relationship with India”stands revived and rejuvenated.” Since the US has been draw its troops out of Afghanistan, the Union stated that Pakistan will stay relevant into the US, even though they depart their neighboring nation. “Our geostrategic place is critical. We’ve got 200 million individuals. We’re significant from the OIC (Organization of Islamic Cooperation). We’re an atomic energy. They’ll require usdown the line. So it is much better to stay engaged with Pakistan.”