US Institute of Peace<\/a> (USIP).<\/p>\n\u201cAt some level, of course, it is our business\u2026 We look at its debt burden\u2026 have concerns about the growth of its economy. We see Pakistan going to the IMF and other lenders. So, of course, it\u2019s right that the US asks questions about the other forms of debts that Pakistan holds, including from China,\u201d he said. \u201cGap in transparency is also a cause of concern for us.\u201d<\/p>\n
Pakistan\u2019s envoy in Washington, Masood Khan, however, explained how the end of the war in Afghanistan had created an opportunity for Pakistan and the United States to start afresh.<\/p>\n
\u201cPakistan-US relations have been de-hyphenated from India and Afghanistan,\u201d said Ambassador Khan in his keynote address at the two-day conference, organised by the Center for Security, Strategy and Policy Research (CSSPR), University of Lahore, the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, and Engro Corporation here this week.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe US policy in the past was based on regional equilibrium,\u201d the ambassador said, adding that the US relationship with India stood on its own. \u201cWe are engaged right now to recalibrate, reenergise and rejuvenate a broad-based relationship in the new technological age,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Others were not as confident. Former Chief of Naval Staff Tahir Afzal suggested correcting past mistakes to build a better relationship. \u201cThe relationship needs another event. When there is an event, the relations will be good. When the event is over, we will move from being the cornerstone of US policy to being the most sanctioned country,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Ms Chaudhary, a non-resident Senior Fellow at Atlantic Council, noted that Pakistan was not even mentioned in the new US national security strategy, released last month, although \u201cthere\u2019s a lot of conversation\u201d about the region, as well as Afghanistan and India.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe strategy is talking around Pakistan, but if you look at the themes of strategy \u2026there\u2019s a lot of fruitful conversation that we can have about how US and Pakistan can collaborate with each other.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr Markey noted that some equate strategic stability in Pakistan with the safety of its nuclear assets. Noting that this was \u201ca very narrow context,\u201d he said, Pakistan was also strategically important to the US because \u201cit\u2019s an enormous country\u201d.<\/p>\n
The nuclear issue, however, was \u201ccentral to the US interests\u201d as it would like to \u201censure that these types of weapons are never used\u201d.<\/p>\n
The nuclear issue was also \u201ccentral to Pakistan\u2019s sense of its own security. It is at the core of Pakistan\u2019s security in the region. So, that continues to be a strategic concern,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Mr Markey noted that the US has a strategic partnership with India, while Pakistan has a strategic partnership with China and this arrangement too has become strategically important as US-China and Pakistan-India relations are strained. The US and Pakistan, he said, \u201cneed a firm and established equilibrium\u2026 to move forward\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
China’s message to US: Ties with Pakistan \u2018none of your business\u2019. The Chinese feel that the United States should not urge China and Pakistan to renegotiate Beijing\u2019s debt and should not \u2018bad mouth\u2019 the Pakistan-China relationship, according to the director of the China programme at the Stimson Centre. Speaking at a two-day seminar on US-Pakistan […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":11863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[470,527,7379,138,182],"class_list":["post-11862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-world","tag-china","tag-cpec","tag-pakistan-china-relationship","tag-pakistan","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}