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Pak – US Relations Part – 6
ISAF Routes to Afghanistan The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), which is led by the US, needed Pakistan to attack and take over Afghanistan, which is landlocked. Its first and most important goal was to get goods to Kabul in a safe and ...
Pak – US Relations Part – 5
Change in Pak-US relations after 9/11 Pakistan's relationship with the US changed in a big way after the September 11 attacks (9/11). Until then, because the US and Pakistan have different strategic goals, their relationship could at best be called a ...
Pak – US Relations Part – 4
Reinstatement of Pak's IMF Enhanced Structural Adjustment Facility/Electronic Frontier Foundation (ESAF/EFF) As we've already talked about, the nuclear tests were a big setback for US-Pakistani ties, which had improved during the second Clinton admini ...
Pak – US Relations (Part – 3)
Clinton Administration's plan to get Pakistan to sign CTBT As we've talked about, the end of the second romance between Pakistan and the US was when the Soviets left Afghanistan in 1989. The US put the Pressler sanctions on Pakistan right away, which ...
Pak – US Relations (Part – 2)
End of second Pak - US romance The 1990 Sanctions: When Pakistan and Afghanistan signed the Geneva Accords on April 14, 1988, the second Pak-US romance was over. The agreements, which were backed by both the US and the Soviet Union, included a plan fo ...
Pak – US Relations (Part – 1)
The US keeps playing with Pakistan. This time, it's to get back at Pakistan for the "most humiliating defeat in history," which was actually caused by the Taliban but "credited" to Pakistan. Afghanistan Counterterrorism, Oversight, and Accountability ...