The Pak-US relations have reached a new high under President Trump's second tenure after remaining in the Obama-Biden trough for over a decade. The reasons for this new-found bonhomie and its strategic dividends are still shrouded in opacity, though both sides have evinced a palpable keenness to forge a mutually beneficial partnership, based on sustained security and economic cooperation, as opposed to the past transactional ties. The rollercoaster nature of Pak-US ties in the past hangs like a miasma of doubt over sanguinity of assessments about the durability of new relationship, premised primarily upon trade, investment and resource exploration.

In the past the US strategic community and the deep state had viewed Pakistan from the lens of Cold War driven common geopolitical interests t

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