Trump or Biden: Pakistan ready to work with whoever wins US election

Author: News Desk

As Americans vote in a bitterly contested election for a White House race between President Donald Trump and his Democratic rival Joe Biden, with millions of ballots still to count, the Foreign Office has said that Pakistan was looking forward to “working with anyone who wins”.

“Pakistan looks forward to working with anyone who wins,” Foreign Office Spokesperson Zahid Chaudhri told Arab News.

He also said that the election was an internal matter of the United States but Pakistan conveyed its best wishes to the people of the country.

By early Wednesday, the race was down to a handful of states, and both Trump, 74, and Biden, 77, had possible paths to reach the needed 270 Electoral College votes to win White House.

Shortly after Biden said he was confident of winning the contest once the votes are counted, Trump appeared at the White House to declare victory and said his lawyers would be taking his case to the US Supreme Court, without specifying what they would claim. “We were getting ready to win this election. Frankly, we did win this election,” Trump said. “This is a major fraud on our nation. We want the law to be used in a proper manner. So we’ll be going to the US Supreme Court. We want all voting to stop.” He provided no evidence to back up his claim of fraud. Joe Biden’s White House campaign slammed President Donald Trump’s threat to try to stop the election vote count as “outrageous”, saying its legal team was ready to prevent such an “unprecedented” act.

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