US- Pakistan relations - Revision history

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 Trump’s sons Eric and Donald Jr, and son-in-law Jared Kushner, collectively hold a 60% stake in WLF. WLF delegation that visited Islamabad was led by Zachary Witkoff, son of Steve Witkoff, a long-time associate of Trump and currently his special envoy to West Asia. Munir personally welcomed them and participated in a closed-door meeting alongside PM Shehbaz Sharif.
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		+	[https://epaper.indiatimes.com/article-share?article=08_10_2025_036_011_cap_TOI Abhilash.Gaur, Oct 8, 2025: ''The Times of India'']
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		+	Long before he said he would stop the Ukraine war within a day of becoming president, Trump said he would get Dr Shakil Afridi out of prison in two minutes: “I would tell them, ‘let him out,’ and I’m sure they would let him out.” But nine years and some months after Trump’s boast, Afridi, the CIA eye who helped US hunt down Osama bin Laden, remains in a Pakistani jail. Did Trump forget to tell the Pakistanis, or did they refuse to humour him? The answer can shed some light on his baffling flip-flop relationship with Pakistan.
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		+	Flop It’s baffling because Trump’s original attitude towards Pakistan left no room for a relationship at all. “Get it straight: Pakistan is not our friend,” he tweeted in Dec 2011. And again in Jan 2012, before asking in June that year, “When will Pakistan apologise to us for providing safe sanctuary to Osama bin Laden for 6 years?! Some ‘ally’.”
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		+	Flip Pakistan has never apologised, but within five months of Op Sindoor, PM Shehbaz Sharif and Field Marshal Asim Munir have wormed their way into Trump’s good books by dangling before him goodies like a Nobel nomination, a rumour of oil, and a box of rocks. The latest from our neighbours is that they have delivered a batch of “enriched rare earth elements and critical minerals” to a firm in the Midwestern state of Missouri. They should have said “sample” because there’s no way sea freight will reach Missouri from Pakistan in less than a month – the MoU was signed only on Sept 8. More than these, what’s softened Trump to putty is fulsome praise. Munir recently claimed Trump saved “millions and millions of lives” through his alleged intervention in Op Sindoor.
		+	Flop But go a long, long way back, like 40 years, when Trump wasn’t 40 yet, and only once married. He already had a dim view of Pakistan as a prospective rogue nuclear state, and to pre-empt that, he told Ron Rosenbaum this in a 1985 interview: “You start off telling them, ‘Let’s get rid of it.’ If that doesn’t work you then start cutting off aid. And more aid and then more. You do whatever is necessary so these people will have riots in the street, so they can’t get water. So they can’t get Band-Aids, so they can’t get food.”
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		+	Flip Yet, after railing for decades, late in 2017 he had a change of heart: “Starting to develop a much better relationship with Pakistan and its leaders.”
		+	Flop But just two months later, he changed his mind: “The United States has foolishly given Pakistan more than 33 billion dollars in aid over the last 15 years, and they have given us nothing but lies & deceit, thinking of our leaders as fools.” Also: “We paid Pakistan Billions of Dollars & they never told us he (Osama) was living there…We no longer pay Pakistan the $Billions because they would take our money and do nothing for us, Bin Laden being a prime example, Afghanistan being another.”
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		+	Flip If the past five months are a sign, Trump seems to have got over his old mistrust of Pakistan completely. Heck, he’s practically kissed them with a 19% tariff. Whether this relationship is of the blood-is-thickerthan-water type, or of the oil-is-thicker-thanblood type, time will tell, but with Afridi still in jail, it’s a fair bet that Sharif-Munir is stringing Trump along.
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		+	How’s that? Maybe they take him for one of their own. There was that old conspiracy theory about him being a local boy, remember? According to Pakistani channel Neo News, Trump was born Dawood Ibrahim Khan in Waziristan, in 1946, and brought to US in 1955 after his parents’ death in a car crash.
		+	If only it were true, it would explain so much. For instance, the liberties Pakistan takes with readouts of its Trump meetings. It claimed in Dec 2016 that Trump had told then PM Nawaz Sharif, Shehbaz’s elder brother: “You have a very good reputation. You are a terrific guy”, and Pakistan is a “fantastic country, fantastic place”, although the US version said nothing of the kind.
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		+	After last week’s closed-door meeting, on which US kept mum, Pakistan claimed Trump showed “open support of Pakistan’s role in counter-terrorism and emphasised the need to further increase security and intelligence cooperation”.
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		+	But it might be that Trump himself has bought into the myth of his Pakistani origin. Which would explain why he hankers for Bagram, which is 50 minutes by air from Waziristan. And isn’t Pakistan the model for what he wants US to be? Army out in cities, opponents in jail, no rights worth the name, and best of all, nobody to stop him from a third – and fourth and fifth – term in office!

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 Against this backdrop, what Samad Khurram did is indeed praiseworthy for he did it in the presence of the US ambassador which in itself takes a lot of doing in view of the fact that timidity, not defiance, is what the Americans expect of Pakistanis. As Madam Ambassador and her seniors would have realised, the leaders and the masses often represent two different — sometime divergent — entities.
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 Washington : The ploy was plain and didn’t cost Pakistan a cent. By the simple expedient of massaging Donald Trump’s ego and playing on the US President’s long-stated desire for a Nobel Peace Prize as a “peace-maker”, Pakistan’s army chief Asim Munir has manoeuvred his country back into the US calculus.
- In the process, he has trumped both his domestic rivals and Pakistan’s civilian brass — by gaining recognition as the country’s de facto ruler — and New Delhi, which holds him responsible for triggering war with India by initiating the Pahalgam terrorist attack following an incendiary speech. “I was honoured to meet him today,” Trump gushed after a private lunch he hosted for Munir in the White House. “The reason I had him here was I wanted to thank him for not going into the war (with India) and ending it.”
+In the process, he has trumped both his domestic rivals and Pakistan’s civilian brass — by gaining recognition as the country’s de facto ruler — and New Delhi, which holds him responsible for triggering war with India by initiating the Pahalgam terrorist attack following an incendiary speech. “I was honoured to meet him today,” Trump gushed after a private lunch he hosted for Munir in the White House. “The reason I had him here was I wanted to thank him for not going into the war (with India) and ending it.”
- Trump also praised PM Modi for the de-escalation. “Two very smart people decided not to keep going with the war. Those are two big nuclear powers.” But considering Delhi had just repudiated a mediatory US role, Munir took the plaudits. Shortly before the lunch, White House candidly revealed the basis for the invitation: Munir’s advocacy for Trump to receive Nobel Peace Prize — ostensibly for his efforts in de-escalating the IndiaPakistan military standoff. This played into Trump’s long-standing grouse he has been denied a Nobel despite his record as a peace-maker. “They gave one to Obama immediately upon his ascent to the presidency, and he had no idea why he got it. You know what? I got us out of wars. I made deals that nobody thought were possible,” Trump said in one of his public gripes on the issue. Even before playing the Nobel card, Munir had laid the foundation for his Trump outreach with a crypto gambit.
+Trump also praised PM Modi for the de-escalation. “Two very smart people decided not to keep going with the war. Those are two big nuclear powers.” But considering Delhi had just repudiated a mediatory US role, Munir took the plaudits. Shortly before the lunch, White House candidly revealed the basis for the invitation: Munir’s advocacy for Trump to receive Nobel Peace Prize — ostensibly for his efforts in de-escalating the IndiaPakistan military standoff. This played into Trump’s long-standing grouse he has been denied a Nobel despite his record as a peace-maker. “They gave one to Obama immediately upon his ascent to the presidency, and he had no idea why he got it. You know what? I got us out of wars. I made deals that nobody thought were possible,” Trump said in one of his public gripes on the issue. Even before playing the Nobel card, Munir had laid the foundation for his Trump outreach with a crypto gambit.
- In April, a privately owned US cryptocurrency firm, World Liberty Financial (WLF), signed a letter of intent with Pakistan’s nascent Crypto Council. The deal grants WLF the authority “to integrate blockchain technology across Pakistan’s financial institutions, paving the way for asset tokenisation, stablecoin development, and establishment of regulatory sandboxes for decentralised financepilot projects”, all aimed at transforming Islamabad into the “crypto capital of South Asia”.
+In April, a privately owned US cryptocurrency firm, World Liberty Financial (WLF), signed a letter of intent with Pakistan’s nascent Crypto Council. The deal grants WLF the authority “to integrate blockchain technology across Pakistan’s financial institutions, paving the way for asset tokenisation, stablecoin development, and establishment of regulatory sandboxes for decentralised financepilot projects”, all aimed at transforming Islamabad into the “crypto capital of South Asia”.
- Trump’s sons Eric and Donald Jr, and son-in-law Jared Kushner, collectively hold a 60% stake in WLF. WLF delegation that visited Islamabad was led by Zachary Witkoff, son of Steve Witkoff, a long-time associate of Trump and currently his special envoy to West Asia. Munir personally welcomed them and participated in a closed-door meeting alongside PM Shehbaz Sharif.
+Trump’s sons Eric and Donald Jr, and son-in-law Jared Kushner, collectively hold a 60% stake in WLF. WLF delegation that visited Islamabad was led by Zachary Witkoff, son of Steve Witkoff, a long-time associate of Trump and currently his special envoy to West Asia. Munir personally welcomed them and participated in a closed-door meeting alongside PM Shehbaz Sharif.
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 If the masses wish to seize politics as its subjects and not just objects, they would have to wage the struggle which they missed while getting national independence.
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 By Humair Ishtiaq
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+[http://www.dawn.com/ Dawn] Pakistan's leading newspaper
 There appears to be a gulf between how the masses and their rulers perceive American intervention in our affairs
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 Against this backdrop, what Samad Khurram did is indeed praiseworthy for he did it in the presence of the US ambassador which in itself takes a lot of doing in view of the fact that timidity, not defiance, is what the Americans expect of Pakistanis. As Madam Ambassador and her seniors would have realised, the leaders and the masses often represent two different — sometime divergent — entities.
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 Against this backdrop, what Samad Khurram did is indeed praiseworthy for he did it in the presence of the US ambassador which in itself takes a lot of doing in view of the fact that timidity, not defiance, is what the Americans expect of Pakistanis. As Madam Ambassador and her seniors would have realised, the leaders and the masses often represent two different — sometime divergent — entities.
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 He refused to comment on what US President-elect Trump's policy might be, except to say that the US State Department has always been a great help to any US President.
 "... ultimately, when President Trump begins planning his overseas travel, he'll have a range of places to consider, and Pakistan would certainly be one of them," Earnest said.
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 [https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/pakistan/us-approves-sales-to-support-paks-f-16-fighter-jets-for-24x7-end-use-monitoring/articleshow/70405143.cms  July 27, 2019: ''The Times of India'']
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	In discussions with prosecutors, according to several government officials, Raphel and her lawyer have cited the Petraeus case as the vital precedent. If passing secrets -including notes on war strategy and the names of covert officers, which Petraeus shared -and lying about it amount to a misdemeanor, then, Raphel says, she should not face any charges.		In discussions with prosecutors, according to several government officials, Raphel and her lawyer have cited the Petraeus case as the vital precedent. If passing secrets -including notes on war strategy and the names of covert officers, which Petraeus shared -and lying about it amount to a misdemeanor, then, Raphel says, she should not face any charges.
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		+	=PART B: DEFENCE ISSUES=
		+	= F-16 jets=
		+	==2019/ US approves sales to support Pakistan's F-16 jets==
		+	[https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/pakistan/us-approves-sales-to-support-paks-f-16-fighter-jets-for-24x7-end-use-monitoring/articleshow/70405143.cms July 27, 2019: ''The Times of India'']
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		+	US approves sales to support Pak's F-16 fighter jets for 24x7 end-use monitoring
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		+	WASHINGTON: Days after the meeting between President Donald Trump and Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, the Pentagon notified the Congress on Friday of its decision to approve military sales worth USD 125 million that would result in 24x7 end-use monitoring of the F-16 fighter jets of Pakistan.
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		+	US officials asserted that the freeze in security assistance to Pakistan on Trump's direction since January 2018 was still in place and the latest decision would help it in 24x7 end-use monitoring of the F-16 fighter jets in that country as this would require the assignment of 60 contractor representatives there to assist in the oversight of the F-16 programme.
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		+	"There has been no change to the security assistance suspension announced by the president in January 2018. As the president reiterated this week, we could consider the restoration of certain security assistance programmes consistent with the broader tenor of our relationship," a state department spokesperson told PTI.
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		+	He referred to the notification sent in this regard by the Pentagon to the Congress on Friday.
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		+	"This proposed sale will support the foreign policy and national security of the United States by protecting American technology through the continued presence of US personnel that provide 24x7 end-use monitoring," he said.
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		+	"The State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to Pakistan for Technical Security Team (TST) in continued support of the F-16 program for an estimated cost of USD 125 million," the Defense Security Cooperation Agency said in a statement.
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		+	The Pentagon delivered the required certification notifying the Congress of this possible sale on Friday.
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		+	According to the statement, Pakistan had requested a continuation of technical support services -- US government and contractor technical and logistics support services -- and other related elements of logistics support to assist in the oversight of operations in support of the Pakistan Peace Drive advanced F-16 programme.
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		+	Pakistan has used the F-16 fighter jets against India, the latest being in the aftermath of the Balakot airstrike inside Pakistan by India.
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		+	In its notification, the Pentagon asserted that the proposed sale of this support will not alter the basic military balance in the region.
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		+	"Implementation of this proposed sale will require the assignment of 60 contractor representatives to Pakistan to assist in the oversight of operations as part of the Peace Drive F-16 program," the statement said.
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		+	According to F-16.Net, the aircraft order by Pakistan was designated as "Peace Drive I", continuing with a long tradition of naming the F-16 international sales programmes with the word "Peace".
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		+	The programme raised the total number of F-16s ordered by Pakistan to 54. The Pakistan Air Force received its first F-16, in the block 15 F-16A/B configuration, in 1982. The country has been operating the Lockheed Martin aircraft since 1963, when it received C-130B airlifters.
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		+	The "Peace Drive I" order was for 12 F-16Cs and six F-16Ds, all powered by the Pratt & Whitney F100-PW-229 engine.
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