On his maiden visit to the United States in December 2023, General Syed Asim Munir, Pakistan’s chief of Army Staff (COAS), was greeted with red-carpet treatment from key government and defense officials, from Secretary of State Antony Blinken to General Michael Erik Kurilla, chief of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), among others. These high-level visits reaffirmed … Read more
Advertisement Pakistan has reportedly renewed the Communications and Information Security Memorandum of Agreement (CISMOA), a foundational defense agreement with the United States, three years after it had lapsed. The Pakistan-U.S. CISMOA was originally signed in 2005, in the thick of the post-9/11 Global War on Terror. A year earlier, Pakistan had been designated a major … Read more
Advertisement The only feature that has remained consistent throughout the history of the Pakistan-U.S. relationship is inconsistency. During the last 75 years, there have been phases of mutually beneficial convergences of interests yielding broader-based cooperation, but each such peak in the ties was followed by extended periods of estrangement. Accordingly, the Pakistan-U.S. relationship has been … Read more