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TopicPakistan-US ties

Topic: Pakistan-US ties

Pakistanis say Munir’s Nobel pitch for Trump isn’t helping. US has put visa ban on Pakistan

The irony that this order came the same day that Pakistan’s top rung signed an MoU on crypto with Trump’s company is not lost on many.

Ashamed Pakistanis aren’t hesitating over Sharif’s flattery of Trump: ‘Bootlicker, puppet’

Pakistanis are now debating which is worse: 'Shehbaz Sharif's constant and needless flattery of Donald Trump' or the 'embarrassment of being a Pakistani with zero self-respect'.

New great game afoot in Central Asia. Pakistan, Trump & promise of critical minerals, Balochistan port

Islamabad’s latest attempts to woo Trump are through the offer of critical minerals and now a $1.2 billion port project roughly 100 km from the Chinese-built port of Gwadar.

How Pakistan thinks: Army for hire, ideology of convenience

Pakistan’s army has been a rentier force available to a reasonable bidder. It has never come to the aid of any Muslims including Palestinians or the Gazans, except making noises here and there.

Pakistan is getting new friends. Conflicts with India will only grow

Pakistan is likely to enjoy closeness with the US, China and Saudi Arabia. This is different from its relative isolation of recent years.

Pakistan army chief Asim Munir to attend CENTCOM chief’s farewell, second visit to US in two months

Munir was earlier in America in June when he had a two-hour luncheon meeting with the US president at the White House.

Snake oil sales spike after ‘crude’ shock & UK radars detects everything but accountability

The selected cartoons appeared first in other publications, either in print, online, or on social media, and are credited appropriately.  Also Read: More rhetoric than...

More rhetoric than reality? What are ‘massive’ Pakistani oil reserves Trump has promised to develop

Remains to be seen whether US promise is more rhetoric than reality, Pakistani economist Javed Hassan tells ThePrint. He says Trump’s posts suggest desperation to get India deal. 

After recommending Trump for Nobel Peace Prize, Pakistan’s big military honour for US general

Honour for Michael Kurilla comes weeks after the US general praised Islamabad as a 'phenomenal partner' in counterterrorism and a day after Ishaq Dar met Marco Rubio.

First Field Marshal Munir, now air chief Zaheer Babar, how Pakistan and US are resetting military ties

After last month's visit by Field Marshal Asim Munir, PAF chief is meeting with US senior military officials. ThePrint takes a look at the history of US-Pakistan military ties.

On Camera

Life in Delhi isn’t easy for Northeast Indians. Racism is always round the corner

Racism is a problem for privileged mainlanders only when it's meted out to them abroad. In their own backyard, it's normalised as 'I was just kidding. Chill yaar'.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

IAF’s Tejas fleet undergoes ‘maintenance check’, decision on airframe yet to be taken

The 7 February incident involving Tejas aircraft caused severe damage to its frame. IAF and HAL are working together as part of the Board of Inquiry (BoI) to probe the incident.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.