In recent years, Indian officials and analysts have tried to make it unambiguously clear that, despite close cooperation with Washington, India will not play second fiddle to the United States in its geopolitical games. India, as it always has, eschews any talk of joining camps in the emerging great power competition. In the past, India’s … Read more
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 In recent days, India has found itself embroiled in a diplomatic dispute with the United States, centered around a visit last month to Gilgit-Baltistan in Pakistan-administered Kashmir (PAK) by the U.S. ambassador to Pakistan, Donald Blome. In October last year, Blome had also raised concerns in New Delhi when he visited the part of … 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