KARACHI: Former ambassador of the United States to Pakistan Cameron Munternoted on Sunday that the time has come for Pakistan to work on goodgovernance and to “stop misappropriating funds allotted for socioeconomicdevelopment”.

The former diplomat, who served in Pakistan between 2010 and 2012, wasspeaking at a local hotel in Karachi.

He asserted that relations between the two countries have always followeduneven trajectories for the US feels “Pakistan does not want to cooperatewith it in the war against terror”.

He claimed that Pakistan has been given funds for the development ofeducation in Sindh and Balochistan, but “it hasn’t always used the moneyhonestly”.

However, he added, US has always cooperated with Pakistan and wants strongties between the two countries.

He asserted that there was hope in the US after former dictator PervezMusharraf’s tenure that bilateral relations could be neutralised and the“misconception that the US always exploits Pakistan before disposing of it”could be done away.