A Review of Pakistan-US Bilateral Relations during the Era of President Donald Trump (2017-2021)
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https://doi.org/10.56976/rjsi.v4i1.33Keywords:
Pakistan-US Bilateral Relations, National Interest, Afghan Peace Process, War on Terror (WOT)Abstract
Since the very inception of Pakistan in 1947, the nature of relationship between Pakistan and the United States of America (USA/US) mostly remained interdependent for one reason or the other. However, the rational conceptual framework as well as common long term vision seems neglected in the history of their bilateral relations. Their leaders and policy makers preferred to address only temporarily the multifaceted challenges threatening their divergent strategic interests hence any deep-rooted long-term partnership could not emerge. The era of President Donald Trump (2017-2021) was also not an exception in that regard. Examining various developments that had been taken place in the domain of bilateral relations between both these countries during the said era, the instant study tries to dig out that how the then strained relations during the first two years i.e. 2017 & 2018 were converted into comparatively relaxed relations during the latter part of the term. It finds that all that happened not only because of the impulsiveness of President Trump but also due to the tremendous influence of Pakistan over Afghan Taliban which made the Afghan peace process successful. The research is based on qualitative method of reasoning.
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