Trump’s Pakistan Policy

American efforts in Afghanistan are back to square one these days as a second troop surge seems to be on the cards, recently General Nicholson apprised the President Trump’s Pakistan policy is entirely different from his electoral rhetoric, up till now he has not done anything that goes specifically against Pakistan’s interests.

Conflict in the Middle East Threatens Pakistan

Increasingly caught up in the Middle East’s multiple conflicts, Pakistan is struggling to balance relations with rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran amid concern in Islamabad that potential US-Saudi efforts to destabilize the Islamic republic could turn its crucial province of Baluchistan, a lynchpin in China’s One Belt, One Road initiative, into a battleground.