Trump 2.0: What the Donald’s second term means for US-Pakistan relations
With Trump’s presidency, US-Pakistan relations need recalibration, moving beyond misperceptions, nostalgia and emotional bias, towards a pragmatic, interest-driven approach.
With Trump’s presidency, US-Pakistan relations need recalibration, moving beyond misperceptions, nostalgia and emotional bias, towards a pragmatic, interest-driven approach.
The paper says that Pakistan must work with regional countries to avoid instability in Afghanistan.
Enmity does not require permission, but friendship is by mutual consent — something that both India and Pakistan have consistently lacked for the last several decades.
American support helped inefficient governments sustain power who benefitted from the relationship at the expense of the people, the author writes.