Pak seeks US help to ease tensions with India.
Being a son of Nehru's dentist is not the only connection that Alvi has with India. He is yet another president whose family migrated to Pakistan from India after partition. His predecessors Mamnoon Hussain's family came from Agra and Pervez Musharraf's parents migrated from New Delhi.
Qureshi said the matter will be taken up during Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's visit to the country on September 5.
The prime minister also decided to stop using special plane for foreign visits or domestic travelling and use business class.
FO spokesman Mohammad Faisal said that "Pakistan takes exception to the factually incorrect statement issued by US State Department on today's phone call between Prime Minister Khan and Secretary Pompeo".
Qureshi said External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj sent a letter on Sunday to congratulate Prime Minister Imran Khan and mentioned about talks to resolve issues.
Khan stressed on taking austerity measures, working on tax reforms instead of taking loans, rooting out corruption.
The newly-announced cabinet is expected to take oath on Monday at the President's House.
Khan's government will be the third consecutive democratic government in Pakistan since 2008.
The newly-elected National Assembly, the lower house of Parliament, is meeting to elect the prime minister.
The government and people of Pakistan extend their 'heartfelt condolences' to Vajpayee's family and to the government and people of India, the spokesman said.
The relations between Pakistan and the US nosedived this January after US President Donald Trump accused Islamabad of giving nothing to Washington but "lies and deceit" and providing "safe haven" to terrorists.
Russia has over the past three years provided four Mi-35M combat and cargo helicopters to Pakistan and the militaries of the two countries also held joint drills codenamed 'Friendship'.
Earlier on July 30, Khan, 65, had expressed his desire to take the oath of prime minister on August 11, as his party announced that it had acquired enough seats in the lower house through coalition talks to form a majority government.
PM Modi telephoned Imran Khan to congratulate him on his party's victory in the general elections
PTI leader Naeenul Haq told media on Saturday night that consultations are on to complete the number game.
Jailed former prime minister Nawaz Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz with 64 and former president Asif Ali Zardari's Pakistan Peoples Party with 43 seats are placed at number two and three respectively, the Election Commission of Pakistan said.
PTI spokesman Fawad Chaudhry said that they have the required numbers to form government.
A single party will need at least 137 of the directly elected seats to be able to form the government on its own.
Before the elections, concerns have been raised in the country over the participation of hardline Islamist groups in large numbers.
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