The US has played a significant role in Pakistan’s foreign policy over the past 7 decades, with a complex and dynamic relationship marked by periods of cooperation, estrangement, and close engagement. Despite ups and downs, the US remains a key development and security partner for Pakistan. As a major non-NATO ally, Pakistan has experienced both […]
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Pak-US Strategic Ties
It will not be an overstatement that bilateral Pak-US ties are getting strengthened and improved a lot as compared to the past era, when analysts used to sum up the complexity with the term ‘transactional’. At the moment, Pakistan and the US are enjoying a constructive phase of bilateral relations revolving around steady engagement and […]
Evolving Pak-US relations
On December 21, Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt (retired) wrote an op-ed, “Trump’s surprising policy turn on Pakistan”, that appeared in the Washington Times. In addition to being a high-ranking retired army officer, Kimmitt is a former deputy assistant secretary of defence for Near East and South Asia and former assistant secretary of state for political-military […]
Ambassador Rizwan highlights reset in Pak-US ties at security forum
Ambassador of Pakistan to the United States Rizwan Saeed Sheikh underscored the significance of an indispensable Pakistan-U.S. relations during a panel discussion on “The Future of the U.S.-Pakistan Relationship” at the Future Security Forum 2025 in Washington, D.C. “Between the two mega countries of today and tomorrow – from both a present and a futuristic […]
Why Pak-US Green Partnership Matters?
Today, Pakistan stands at the frontline of climate change. It is paying an unreasonably high price for a crisis it barely caused. Despite contributing less than one percent to global greenhouse gas emissions, the country consistently ranks among the world’s ten most climate-vulnerable nations. Its landscape-stretching from the Himalayan glaciers to the deserts of Sindh-has […]
Pakistan makes large US soybean purchase
Pakistan has made its biggest purchase of U.S. soybeans in nearly three years, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Thursday, as the nation resumes imports of genetically engineered soy. The purchases will only partially offset U.S. farmers’ lost sales to top soy importer China because of President Donald Trump’s trade war with Beijing. More […]
Symbiotic Pak-US ties contributing towards regional and global peace: Masood Khan
“The upward trajectory in Pak US bilateral relations is creating a salutary environment for scaling up our mutual ties in economic, technological, educational and other important sectors,” said Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United States Masood Khan. Ambassador Masood Khan thanked the U.S. government for an additional support of $100 million for post-flood reconstruction and rehabilitation […]
Pakistan wants to enhance working relationship with the US, says Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri
Pakistan Foreign Office Spokesperson Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri on Thursday said that Pakistan wanted to enhance its working relationship with the US as both countries are working together in Afghanistan. He said, in a weekly briefing, that Foreign Secretary Sohail Mahmood received a telephone call from US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland and both agreed to maintain close […]
US and Pakistan can resolve their bilateral issues, claims Pak Ambassador to US
WASHINGTON: Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United States, Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry claimed that the issues plaguing Pakistan and America’s relationship were ‘resolvable’. The Ambassador’s remarks come in the wake of America and Pakistan both imposing travel restrictions on each other’s diplomats. America ordered Pakistani diplomats serving in the US to not travel beyond a 25 mile […]
FO to impose sanctions on US diplomats
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Foreign Office (FO) on Friday responded to United States’ (US) travel restrictions on Pakistani diplomatic staff and their families. Pakistan’s Ambassador to US Aizaz Chaudhry informed that the travel restrictions that went into effect today require a five days prior permission from the Pakistani diplomats if they travel outside the imposed 25 miles […]